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OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 243/2020 issued on 12 October 2020
Publishing date: 12 October 2020
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary Between the evenings of 9 and 11 October, the SMM recorded ten ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 26 ceasefire violations in the region. Between the evenings of 9 and 11 October, the SMM recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region.
2020 OSCE Asian Conference participants urge for OSCE’s comprehensive engagement in times of global security challenges
Publishing date: 12 October 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Asian Partners for Co-operation, OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 12 October 2020 – Multilateral responses to the global security challenges in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the OSCE’s comprehensive engagement are the focus of the two-day 2020 OSCE Asian Conference, virtually hosted by the Republic of Korea, in close co-operation with Slovakia, the 2020 OSCE Asian Partners for Co-operation Group Chair...
More than 100 OSCE observers to deploy to the U.S. for the 3 November elections
Publishing date: 12 October 2020
COPENHAGEN, 12 October 2020 – Some 100 election observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will deploy later this month to the United States for the 3 November general elections. They will work with about 40 long-term observers and experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights who are already in the country and deliver a joint assessment following election day. The mission will mark the eighth time the PA has observed the vote in the U.S. since 2004...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 242/2020 issued on 10 October 2020
Publishing date: 10 October 2020
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary The SMM recorded 26 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and eight in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded four ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska,
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 241/2020 issued on 9 October 2020
Publishing date: 9 October 2020
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary The SMM recorded four ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 36 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and two in Luhansk region. A man died due to the detonation of an explosive object in Obozne, Luhansk region. The
OSCE/ODIHR continues election observation in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine but in limited format
Publishing date: 9 October 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
Based on a shortfall in the number of short-term observers provided by OSCE states due to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated travel and health restrictions, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has decided to limit its missions in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to
Participants of annual Central Asia Media Conference highlight need to uphold OSCE media freedom commitments while countering ‘harmful content’
Publishing date: 9 October 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 9 October 2020 – The 22nd Central Asia Media Conference, organized online by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), concluded today. Over the course of the three-day conference, around 150 journalists, representatives of NGOs, academia, international experts, and government agencies from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan as well as Mongolia, discussed a broad range of issues related to freedom of the media and freedom of information in the region, with a special focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...