News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Our focus is on people and dialogue, says OSCE Chief Monitor in Ukraine at Permanent Council in Vienna
Publishing date: 1 February 2019
VIENNA, 1 February 2019 – Although there was a decrease in the level of violence following a recommitment to the ceasefire on the occasion of the New Year/Christmas festivities, an increase in ceasefire violations in recent weeks has again brought more suffering to civilians living along the contact line, the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), Ertugrul Apakan, said in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council today in Vienna...
Press Statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sajdik after Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 30 January 2019
Publishing date: 31 January 2019
MINSK, 31 January 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 30 January 2019:..
OSCE Special Representative on Youth and Security highlights role of youth mainstreaming during his visit to Serbia
Publishing date: 29 January 2019
BELGRADE, 29 January 2019 – Concluding a three-day visit to Serbia, Samuel Goda, the Special Representative of the Slovak OSCE Chairmanship on Youth and Security, highlighted the crucial role of youth in strengthening comprehensive security and co-operation. Goda reiterated that for Slovakia young people are key for a safer future in Europe...
Digitalization’s impact on security in focus during OSCE PA’s economic and environmental committee visit to Vienna
Publishing date: 29 January 2019
VIENNA, 29 January 2019 – The rapid digitalization process taking place across the OSCE area is generating substantial changes in all spheres of life and carries many security implications, including in the economic and environmental dimension, the Parliamentary Assembly’s Nilza de Sena and Elona Gjebrea-Hoxha said today in Vienna...
Spotlight on how technological change impacts security at first 2019 OSCE economic and environmental talks
Publishing date: 28 January 2019
VIENNA, 28 January 2019 – Looking into how technological change impacts security was the focus of today’s First Preparatory Meeting of the 27th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum held in Vienna...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Secretary General welcome ratification of the Prespa Agreement
Publishing date: 25 January 2019
DAVOS, Switzerland, 25 January 2019 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Slovakia’s Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger today welcomed the ratification of the Prespa Agreement by the Hellenic Parliament and commended the governments in Athens and Skopje for their commitment to pursuing peace and stability in the region.
Greater educational efforts, stronger condemnation of anti-Semitism truest way to commemorate victims of the Holocaust, OSCE officials say ahead of international remembrance day
Publishing date: 25 January 2019
WARSAW, 25 January 2018 – Enhanced educational efforts and stronger condemnation of anti-Semitism and all forms of intolerance must be part of any commemoration of the Holocaust, OSCE officials said ahead of Sunday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Rabbi Andrew Baker, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism, stressed in a statement today that this was the truest way to commemorate the victims of genocide under the Nazi regime...