News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan supports gender diversity in economic context expanding capabilities of young scientists and researchers
Publishing date: 5 July 2019
An OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan-supported Gender Economics International Summer School was conducted from 2 to 6 July 2019 in Tashkent for some 35 young employees of the public sector and non-governmental organizations from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan working on issues of women's empowerment and gender equality...
Press Communiqué of the Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions
Publishing date: 3 July 2019
GENEVA, Switzerland, 3 July 2019- The 48th round of the Geneva International Discussions (GID) took place today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan launches series of training courses for regional representatives of Women’s Committee
Publishing date: 3 July 2019
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan is conducting a first in a series of new training courses for members of the Women`s Committee Central Apparatus and its regional representations. Thirty representatives of the Women’s Committee, from Tashkent city and the regions of Tashkent and Syrdarya are participating in the course from 2 to 4 July 2019 in Tashkent.
OSCE PA’s Voridis and Chambers address UN Security Council on parliamentary counter-terrorism efforts
Publishing date: 3 July 2019
NEW YORK, 2 July 2019 – In a briefing on the counter-terrorism work of parliamentarians before the United Nations Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Makis Voridis and Lisa Chambers spoke about the role played by the Assembly in this field and ways to further the engagement of parliamentarians in countering terrorism...
OSCE participating States discuss how to leverage economic and environmental activities to foster dialogue, build trust and reduce tensions in OSCE region
Publishing date: 2 July 2019
VIENNA, 2 July 2019 – Leveraging economic and environmental activities to foster dialogue, build trust and reduce tensions, was the focus of a discussion held in Vienna today amongst OSCE participating States and experts from the field...
Press Statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sajdik after meeting of Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on 2 July 2019
Publishing date: 2 July 2019
MINSK, 2 July 2019 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its working groups in Minsk on 2 July 2019...
Press Statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
Publishing date: 29 June 2019
VIENNA/BRATISLAVA- 29 June 2019- The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stéphane Visconti of France and Andrew Schofer of the United States of America) visited Vienna and Bratislava from 27-28 June to brief the Permanent Representatives of the OSCE Minsk Group countries, OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger, and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak on the results of the Co-Chairs’ recent visit to the region and their recent consultations with the Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers in Moscow and Washington, DC.