News and press releases

SKOPJE, 19 June 2019 – On a trip to the Republic of North Macedonia, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovakia’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, today in Skopje, congratulated North Macedonia on its successes over the last year, in particular the Prespa Agreement on the issue of the country’s name and achieved reforms...

MINSK, 19 June 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 19 June 2019:..

BRATISLAVA, 19 June 2019- Trends, challenges and opportunities related to inter-state security in the ICT/cyber space were the focus of a conference that brought together more than 200 representatives of governments, the private sector, civil society, academia and the UN for an OSCE-wide conference on 17 and 18 June 2019. The conference, Cyber/ICT Security for a Safer Future: The OSCE’s Role in Fostering Regional Cyber Security, was organized by the Slovak OSCE Chairmanship, in co-operation with the Transnational Threats Department of the OSCE Secretariat...

Bratislava, 14 June 2019- Following a meeting with President Zelensky on 13 June, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovakia’s Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Miroslav Lajčák calls on the international community to support the Ukrainian President's constructive steps towards a peaceful resolution of the crisis in and around Ukraine. He also offers the full support of the Slovak Chairmanship in this endeavour.

KYIV, 13 June 2019 – Visiting Ukraine for the second time since taking over the OSCE Chairmanship, Slovakia’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other members of the Ukrainian leadership to explore steps towards a peaceful political solution to the crisis in and around Ukraine as well as to discuss ways to ease human suffering on the ground...

COPENHAGEN, 13 June 2019 – Following mass arrests of peaceful demonstrators in recent days in Moscow, Russia, and several cities in Kazakhstan, the leaders of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee call for full respect of fundamental freedoms of assembly and expression...

On 11 June 2019 the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia (MGIMO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which will allow for closer academic exchange between the two institutions, research internship opportunities for OSCE Academy students, and the implementation of joint projects...