News and press releases

Recommendations from the final report on last year’s general elections in the United States were presented by a team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the Carter Center in Atlanta and the summer conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Anchorage between 17 and 19 July 2013...

VIENNA, 17 July 2013 – The latest round of 5+2 talks in the Transdniestrian settlement process, chaired by the OSCE Chairperson’s Special Representative for conflicts Ambassador Andrii Deshchytsia, concluded in Vienna today...

VIENNA, 9 July 2013- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today condemned the murder of the journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev in Russia’s republic of Dagestan...

VIENNA, 3 July 2013- On the 10th anniversary of the death of prominent Russian investigative journalist Yury Shchekochikhin, Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today called on OSCE participating States to ensure the safety of journalists and the right to freedom of expression...

VIENNA, 2 July 2013 – The foreign minister of Switzerland and Serbia, Didier Burkhalter and Ivan Mrkić, outlined today the joint workplan of their consecutive Chairmanships of the OSCE in 2014 and 2015 at a special meeting of the Permanent Council in Vienna...

SARY OZEK, KAZAKHSTAN, 29 June 2013- A train carrying 410 tonnes of a toxic rocket fuel component, which had been stored in deteriorating containers, left Kazakhstan today for safe disposal at a specialized chemical plant in Dzerzhinsk, Russia as part of a project supported by the OSCE...

BISHKEK, 26 June 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today over the new initiative in the Russian State Duma to criminalize speech which sheds a negative light on the role of the Soviet Army in World War II...