News and press releases

VIENNA, 7 September 2011 – Joint efforts are needed to combat terrorism and other transnational threats as well as to promote peace and respect for human rights, said Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, in an address to OSCE participating States in Vienna today...

SARAJEVO, 29 August 2011 – Ambassador Fletcher M. Burton took up his duties today as Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, meeting with Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj. They discussed the role of the OSCE in BiH and Ambassador Burton reaffirmed the Mission’s engagement in key areas for the country’s future...

A study tour to Latvia and Finland for representatives of Kyrgyzstan’s penal enforcement body took place from 21 to 27 August 2011, organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek with support of the Permanent Mission of Finland to the OSCE...

YEREVAN, 24 August 2011 – Ambassador Sergey Kapinos, the Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, and Aghvan Hovsepyan, the Armenian Prosecutor General, today signed a co-operation agreement on prosecutorial reform in Armenia...

TORONTO, Canada, 12 August 2011 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, emphasized prevention as a strategic area of anti-trafficking action during a visit to Canada that concluded today...

PODGORICA, 1 August 2011 – The Acting Head of OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Waldemar Figaj, said today he regretted that the amendments to the Law on Election were again not adopted within the deadline of 31 July...

BISHKEK, 29 July 2011 – Today the OSCE Centre in Bishkek donated eight off-road vehicles to the Interior Ministry of Kyrgyzstan to be used in remote rural police stations covering villages located in mountainous isolated areas in Naryn, Chuy, Osh and Batken provinces...