News and press releases

Seven representatives from Turkmenistan’s ministries and law-enforcement bodies participated in an OSCE-organized study visit on anti-corruption and anti-money laundering mechanisms to Latvia that took place from 23 to 25 September 2014 in Riga...

TURKMENBASHI, 26 September 20014 – 105 cadets at the Navy Institute of the Defence Ministry of Turkmenistan attended an OSCE-organized course on maritime border security and port management procedures and mechanisms that concluded in Turkmenbashi today.

DUSHANBE, 26 September 2014 – A ten-day regional Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) course level 1, facilitated by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan concluded in Dushanbe today...

Ombuds institutions and national human rights institutions are playing an increasingly active role in investigating grievances of personnel in the security sector, said participants in a side event at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 26 September 2014.

New York City, 25 September 2014 – The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, James Warlick of the United States of America, and Pierre Andrieu of France) met with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov this week at the United Nations General Assembly. The Co-Chairs were joined by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.

The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions focusing on the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol/Memorandum. In Kyiv, in a large demonstration, protesters threatened the authorities with a “New Maidan” after the Central Election Commission refused to register members of the “Volya” party for the upcoming parliamentary elections...

SARAJEVO, 25 September 2014 – OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina renewed its Memorandum of Understanding with the Central Election Commission of BiH in Sarajevo today...