News and press releases

Introducing amendments to ensure clearer and more comprehensive electoral legislation, along with measures to increase trust and public confidence in the election administration, are among the main recommendations in the final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the 10 August 2014 presidential election in Turkey.

KYZYL-ORDA, Kazakhstan, 18 November, 2014 – Development of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture as part of the green economy promotion in the Aral Sea region is the topic of the OSCE-supported training seminar that began today in Kyzyl-Orda...

The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the activities of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC).

ERGNETI, 17 November 2014- At today’s 50th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) the co-facilitators, Toivo Klaar, the Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and Ambassador Angelo Gnaedinger, OSCE Special Representative of the Swiss OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus, commended and thanked participants for their continuing engagement...

Training on integrity, transparency and reduction of corruption risks in public administration was held for some forty high-level representatives from Armenia’s government institutions and regional self-government bodies on 10-15 November 2014, in Aghveran, Kotayk region. The training was held by the Union of Armenia's Government Employees NGO with the OSCE Office in Yerevan support and in partnership with the Civil Service Council of Armenia...

ASTANA, 17 November 2014- An OSCE-supported training seminar and roundtable discussion on ethics and the prevention of corruption in the judicial system began today in Astana...

OSH, 17 November 2014 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported a public hearing of the Kyrgyz Parliament Committee on Defense and Security on “Combating religious extremism and international terrorism” today in Osh, Kyrgyzstan...