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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Full engagement of women, national minorities and persons with disabilities crucial to ensure democratic elections, say participants of OSCE conference in Tirana
Publishing date: 21 January 2020
Increasing the participation of women, national minorities and persons with disabilities at all stages of the electoral process is the focus of a conference taking place in Tirana on 21 and 22 January 2020...
Full engagement of women, national minorities and persons with disabilities crucial to ensure democratic elections, say participants of OSCE conference in Tirana
Publishing date: 21 January 2020
Increasing the participation of women, national minorities and persons with disabilities at all stages of the electoral process is the focus of a conference taking place in Tirana on 21 and 22 January 2020. Key topics addressed are challenges and obstacles to the inclusion of these groups in
Press Statement of Special Representative Grau after regular Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on 16 January 2020
Publishing date: 16 January 2020
MINSK, 16 January 2020 – 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 meeting of the TCG and its working groups in Minsk today...
Overarching goal of Parliamentary Assembly to help overcome differences, says President Tsereteli in address to OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 16 January 2020
VIENNA, 16 January 2020 – Addressing the ambassadors of the 57 OSCE permanent delegations in Vienna today, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli reiterated the PA’s support for the priorities of the Albanian OSCE Chairmanship and expressed appreciation for Chair-in-Office Edi Rama’s stated intention to further strengthening the Chairmanship’s work with parliamentarians. He also welcomed Sweden as a new member of the OSCE Troika and expressed his appreciation for Poland’s readiness to chair the organization in 2022...
Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Önal opens Turkey’s Chairmanship of OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation in Vienna
Publishing date: 15 January 2020
VIENNA, 15 January 2020 – Turkey will aim at enhancing the implementation of OSCE participating States’ existing commitments in the politico-military sphere and making the best use of established OSCE instruments, said Turkey’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sedat Önal, as he opened the country’s Chairmanship of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) in Vienna today...
OSCE PA members pay tribute to 22 July 2011 victims in Norway, stress need for effective counter-terrorism strategies
Publishing date: 15 January 2020
OSLO, 15 January 2020 – Honoring the victims of the 22 July 2011 terrorist attacks in Utøya and Oslo requires working to ensure that this sort of horrific attack is never repeated, said OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli, Secretary General Roberto Montella and members of the OSCE PA’s Ad Hoc Committee on Countering Terrorism (CCT) today wrapping up a visit to Norway...
“Implementing our commitments together” – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Edi Rama presents Albania’s 2020 priorities to Permanent Council
Publishing date: 9 January 2020
VIENNA, 9 January 2020 – Under the motto ‘Implementing our commitments together’, Albania’s OSCE Chairmanship 2020 will work towards making a difference on the ground, leveraging the Organization’s acquis, and enhancing dialogue, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Albania’s Prime Minister and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Edi Rama, in his address to the Permanent Council in Vienna today...