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OSCE Chairperson-in-Office offers condolences over plane crash in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 26 December 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore, extended his condolences to the families of those killed in the crash of a military plane near Shymkent in southern Kazakhstan on 25 December 2012...
OSCE Troika meets with Asian Partners
Publishing date: 7 December 2012
Content type: News
The OSCE Troika of the current, preceding and future Chairmanships met on 7 December 2012 with high-level representatives from the Asian Partner countries on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Dublin
OSCE Troika meets with Mediterranean Partners
Publishing date: 7 December 2012
Content type: News
Joe Costello, Minister of State from the Irish Foreign Ministry, opened a Troika meeting with the OSCE Mediterranean Partner countries held on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Dublin on 7 December 2012...
Transdniestrian settlement negotiations started in Dublin
Publishing date: 28 November 2012
DUBLIN, 28 November 2012 – Official negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement started in Dublin today. The three-day meeting brings together representatives of the sides, mediators and observers in the negotiations – Moldova, Transdniestria, the OSCE, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the US and the EU...
Good practices, challenges to freedom of assembly and association highlighted at civil society forum
Publishing date: 7 November 2012
Content type: News
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
Promoting the freedom of assembly and association, as well as the challenges faced in exercising this fundamental right, were the focus of a forum for civil society representatives organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Irish OSCE Chairmanship on 7 November 2012...
Protracted conflicts, arms control, trafficking in human beings top agenda as Ukraine takes over OSCE Chair
Publishing date: 31 December 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
KYIV, 1 January 2013 – Ukraine will seek to make progress on resolving protracted conflicts, strengthening conventional arms control, combating human trafficking, reducing the environmental impact of energy-related activities, and protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms as OSCE Chair in 2013 the new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, said today...
29th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 18 December 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
ERGNETI, 18 December 2012- On 18 December the 29th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism, co-facilitated by the EUMM and the OSCE, took place in Ergneti.
Geneva Discussions 2012 round concludes with call for constructive approach
Publishing date: 12 December 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
GENEVA, 12 December 2012 – Pádraig Murphy, the OSCE Chairmanship’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus, urged participants to maintain a constructive approach focused on taking “small steps forward” at the 22nd meeting of the Geneva International Discussions today...
Ministers agree Helsinki +40 road map for OSCE, declare support for Transdniestrian settlement process as Dublin Ministerial Council ends
Publishing date: 7 December 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
DUBLIN, 7 December 2012 – A strategic road map for the OSCE’s future direction and a statement of support for the newly invigorated talks on the Transdniestrian settlement process were among decisions taken by foreign ministers and high-level representatives from the 57 OSCE participating States at the 19th Ministerial Council, which concluded in Dublin today...
OSCE Chairperson, at Dublin Ministerial Council, announces agreement on future road map for OSCE
Publishing date: 6 December 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
DUBLIN, 6 December 2012- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore, announced on the first day of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Dublin that agreement had been reached by the foreign ministers of the 57 participating States on a future road map for the Organization...