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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Press Statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chair in Ukraine and in Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Sajdik after regular Meeting of TCG in Minsk
Publishing date: 29 October 2019
MINSK, 29 October 2019 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its working groups in Minsk on 29 October 2019...
Press Statement of Special Representative Sajdik on the occasion of the renewal of disengagement of forces and hardware in Zolote
Publishing date: 29 October 2019
MINSK, 29 October 2019 – In the course of the meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) and its working groups in Minsk on 29 October 2019, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the TCG, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press...
OSCE participates at regional conference of equality bodies hosted by Montenegrin Ombudsperson
Publishing date: 29 October 2019
Maryse Daviet, Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro participated in the opening of the fourth regional conference of equality bodies in South-Eastern Europe on 28 and 29 October 2019 in Podgorica. The conference was hosted by the Institution of the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms of Montenegro...
Inclusion of young people is critical to finding solutions to security challenges, say participants of OSCE-wide Youth Forum in Bratislava
Publishing date: 28 October 2019
BRATISLAVA, 28 October 2019 – Young women and men from across the OSCE region and beyond gathered in Bratislava today to discuss how to best engage youth for a safer future by 2030. The two-day OSCE-wide Youth Forum brings together young people, ambassadors, diplomats and experts for an inter-generational dialogue under the OSCE’s flagship Perspectives 20-30 initiative, a key priority of Slovakia’s OSCE Chair...
OSCE PA human rights Chair and Vice-Chair call for commutation of death sentence in Belarus, urge moratorium
Publishing date: 28 October 2019
COPENHAGEN, 28 October 2019 – Kyriakos Hadjiyianni (MP, Cyprus) and Michael Georg Link (MP, Germany), Chair and Vice-Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee, called today for authorities in Minsk to halt the execution of Viktar Syarhel, who was reportedly sentenced to death in Belarus for killing an eight-month old girl...
Reinforced political dialogue with Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation is essential to capitalize on unique OSCE platform
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
TIRANA, 25 October 2019 — Making tangible steps towards a more strategic, action-oriented approach to co-operation between the OSCE and its Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation was the focus of the two-day 2019 OSCE Mediterranean Conference, which concluded today in Tirana...
OSCE PA Political and Security Affairs Committee Chair issues statement on the Open Skies Treaty
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
COPENHAGEN, 25 October 2019 – In response to reports that the current U.S. administration is considering withdrawing from the Open Skies Treaty, a multilateral agreement establishing a system of unarmed observation flights over the territories of 34 State Parties, Filippo Lombardi, Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Political Affairs and Security, issued the following statement...