News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE media watchdog, Finnish OSCE Chairmanship host forum on challenges to media freedom
Publishing date: 29 February 2008
VIENNA, 29 February 2008- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklós Haraszti, and Finnish Secretary of State Pertti Torstila, called on participating States to comply with their OSCE media commitments at a roundtable discussion today...
Reinforcing co-operation between OSCE, Council of Europe key to being effective and preventing overlap, says Slovak Foreign Minister
Publishing date: 28 February 2008
VIENNA, 28 February 2008- Promoting co-operation and avoiding duplication are challenges that the OSCE and the Council of Europe face, said the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Slovak Foreign Minister Jan Kubis, today...
OSCE an important actor in conflict prevention and resolution, says Irish Prime Minister
Publishing date: 27 February 2008
VIENNA, 27 February 2008- The OSCE should continue to play a key role in the areas of security, conflict prevention and resolution, democracy and human rights, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern told a special meeting of the OSCE today...
Finnish Chairmanship discusses 2008 priorities with OSCE parliamentarians
Publishing date: 21 February 2008
VIENNA, 21 February 2008- The OSCE remains a central security actor across the Transatlantic and Eurasian areas, Finnish Secretary of State Teija Tiilikainen said at the start of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Winter Meeting in Vienna today...
Serbian foreign minister to speak on Kosovo at OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 18 February 2008
VIENNA, 18 February 2008- The situation around Kosovo will be the focus of an address by Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic to the OSCE Permanent Council tomorrow...
OSCE Minsk Office organizes seminar on energy sources
Publishing date: 12 February 2008
MINSK, 12 February 2008- Developing alternative and renewable sources of energy, including the use of biomass, is the focus of a seminar that opened in Minsk today...
OSCE promotes monitoring of women's rights in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 8 February 2008
ALMATY, 8 February 2008- The methodologies used to monitor women's rights were the focus of a workshop, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the OSCE Centre in Astana, that ended in Almaty today...