News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Building skills for Fourth Industrial Revolution, innovation and youth entrepreneurship focus of OSCE-supported discussion in Tirana
Publishing date: 9 November 2018
TIRANA, 9 November 2018 – A two-day connectivity meeting on innovation and youth entrepreneurship hosted by the OSCE Secretariat focusing on “Building the skills needed for the Fourth Industrial Revolution” concludes today in Tirana. The meeting is part of The Young Developers and Entrepreneurs to Advance Start-ups (YDEAS) project in the Western Balkans, and is supported by the Italian 2018 OSCE Chairmanship, the Central European Initiative and the Principality of Liechtenstein...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Moavero Milanesi extremely concerned by announced “elections” in certain areas of Donetsk and Lugansk, Ukraine
Publishing date: 8 November 2018
ROME, 8 November 2018- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Italy’s Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi today reiterated OSCE support to the implementation of the Minsk agreements for a peaceful solution to the crisis in and around Ukraine, in line with OSCE principles and commitments and in full respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine...
Press Statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sajdik after Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 6 November 2018
Publishing date: 6 November 2018
MINSK, 6 November 2018 – 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 6 November 2018:
Prevention of corruption at local level focus of OSCE/OECD expert seminar in Vienna
Publishing date: 6 November 2018
New approaches and practical tools to prevent corruption at the local level were the focus of a two-day expert seminar organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) in partnership with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (OECD/ACN) in Vienna on 5 and 6 November 2018, which gathered over 70 experts and practitioners from some 30 OSCE participating States...
International e-business and e-commerce conference in Bishkek discusses digital markets and trade development in Central Asia and beyond
Publishing date: 5 November 2018
How to promote economic prosperity and growth through e-business and e-commerce was the focus of an international conference in Bishkek held on 1 and 2 November 2018, which was organized jointly by the Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic and the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek...
OSCE supports conference on role of new technologies in electoral process in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 November 2018
The role of new technologies in the electoral process was the focus of an international conference organized by the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan with support from the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, in Kazakhstan’s capital on 1 and 2 November 2018. The conference was held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Commission...
Press Statement by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group
Publishing date: 2 November 2018
YEREVAN / BAKU, November 2, 2018- 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), together with the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, visited the region from 29 October to 2 November...