News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Press Statement of Special Representative Grau after the regular Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 21 January 2021
Publishing date: 21 January 2021
KYIV, 21 January 2021 — The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Heidi Grau, made the following statement to the press after the regular meetings of the TCG and its Working Groups held through video conferencing:
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media meets with the Executive Director of the International Press Institute
Publishing date: 21 January 2021
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Teresa Ribeiro, met today, 21 January 2021, with Executive Director of the International Press Institute, Barbara Trionfi, to discuss the media freedom situation across the OSCE region.
OSCE Mission and Swedish Embassy to BiH present priorities of OSCE Swedish Chairpersonship
Publishing date: 21 January 2021
SARAJEVO, 21 January 2021 – Swedish Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Johanna Strömquist and Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH, Kathleen Kavalec, presented the OSCE Swedish Chairpersonship 2021 priorities on 21 January in Sarajevo...
New members of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration appointed by Austria, Belarus and Portugal
Publishing date: 20 January 2021
Austria, Belarus and Portugal have renewed the mandates or, alternatively, appointed new members to the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration Court for new terms of six years after the previous mandates of their members expired.
OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation under United States’ Chairpersonship will focus on fulfilment of commitments, rebuilding military transparency and confidence
Publishing date: 20 January 2021
VIENNA, 20 January 2021 — Fulfilling commitments and rebuilding confidence and transparency are key steps to addressing new and long-standing politico-military issues in the OSCE region, said United States Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Bureau Ambassador Philip T. Reeker in his video message to open the United States Chairpersonship of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) today.
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 19 January 2021
Publishing date: 19 January 2021
Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons decreased at both BCPs compared to the previous week.
Chairperson-in-Office Ann Linde presents Sweden’s 2021 priorities to Permanent Council
Publishing date: 14 January 2021
VIENNA/STOCKHOLM, 14 January 2021 — Over the coming year, the Swedish Chairpersonship will do its part to ensure that the OSCE can make a real difference on the ground and defend the principles on which the Organization was founded, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden Ann Linde in her virtual address to the Permanent Council today.