News and press releases

YEREVAN, 22 December 2010 – The Armenian translation of three key OSCE documents prepared by the OSCE Office in Yerevan together with the Armenian Foreign Ministry was presented today to the Armenian public...

CHISINAU, 22 December 2010 – Moldovan former officers and warrant officers today graduated from a course at the Moldovan Academy of Economic Studies held as part of an OSCE Mission to Moldova project to help former military and security officers make the transition to civilian life...

PRISHTINE/PRISTINA, 15 December 2010- Kosovo institutions have taken considerable steps to enhance the protection and promotion of non-Albanian community rights, but implementation of laws and a stronger institutional commitment is necessary to achieve full respect for their rights, according to a report by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo released today...

PRISHTINE/PRISTINA, 9 December 2010- On the occasion of the International Human Rights Day, Ambassador Werner Almhofer, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and Paul Miller, the Head of the Office in Kosovo for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) said the following:

VIENNA, 9 December 2010- Janez Lenarcic, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Heiner Bielefeldt, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, today called on states to remove undue restrictions on the fundamental freedom of religion or belief...

SKOPJE, 3 December 2010- The fifth anniversary of the start of the decentralization process in the country was marked with a conference co-organized by the OSCE and the Association of Local Self-Government Units (ZELS) in Mavrovo today...

ASTANA, 2 December 2010- The first OSCE Summit in 11 years concluded today with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev welcoming the work of Heads of State and Government from the 56 OSCE participating States, saying their adoption...