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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE parliamentary human rights chair reiterates need for Easter ceasefire in Ukraine
Publishing date: 19 April 2019
COPENHAGEN, 19 April 2019 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights and humanitarian affairs committee, Margareta Kiener Nellen (MP, Switzerland) today reiterated her full support for efforts aimed at achieving a recommitment to a ceasefire in Ukraine on the occasion of the upcoming Easter festivities...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Lajčák strongly calls for a new recommitment to cease fire in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 19 April 2019
BRATISLAVA, 19 April 2019- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovak Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Miroslav Lajčák today expressed his deep regret that the Trilateral Contact Group and its Working Group on Security Issues were not able to agree yesterday on a recommitment to cease fire in eastern Ukraine on the occasion of the upcoming Easter festivities...
Press Statement of the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, After the Meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in Form of a Videoconference on 18 April 2019
Publishing date: 18 April 2019
KYIV, 18 April 2019 – The Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) and its Working Group on Security Issues convened this afternoon and evening in the videoconference format.
With high-level OSCE PA participation, St. Petersburg conference explores parliamentary dimension of counter-terrorism
Publishing date: 18 April 2019
ST. PETERSBURG, Russian Federation, 18 April 2019 – The evolving nature of the threat posed by terrorists and violent extremists requires enhancing co-operation at all levels, including between parliamentarians, said Chair of the OSCE PA’s Ad Hoc Committee on Countering Terrorism (CCT) Makis Voridis (Greece) at today’s opening plenary session of the International Conference on Counter-Terrorism in St. Petersburg...
OSCE-supported Customs Training Centre in Kyrgyzstan acquires new international status
Publishing date: 18 April 2019
Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO) Kunio Mikuriya, together with the Chairperson of the State Customs Service (SCS) of the Kyrgyz Republic Almaz Onolbekov, with the support of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, opened a new Regional Training Centre of the World Customs Organization in Kyrgyzstan on 16 April 2019 in Bishkek...
OSCE high-level regional conference on countering terrorist financing and organized crime hosted in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 17 April 2019
ASHGABAT, 17 April 2019 – Some 200 representatives of Central Asian and other OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation, as well as experts from international organizations, attended today in Ashgabat an OSCE high-level regional conference on countering terrorist financing and organized crime...
In Turkmenistan, OSCE PA Special Representative Haider builds parliamentary dialogue
Publishing date: 17 April 2019
ASHGABAT, 17 April 2019 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on Central Asia, Austrian parliamentarian Roman Haider, is in Turkmenistan this week, where he has attended the OSCE Regional Meeting of Heads of OSCE Field Operations in Central Asia and a conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the opening of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat. He has also met with Turkmen officials and members of the international community...