News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE-led team starts mission to assess environmental impact of southern Caucasus fires
Publishing date: 3 October 2006
BAKU, 3 October 2006- An OSCE-led team of international experts, backed by a United Nations General Assembly resolution, began an 11-day mission today to assess the environmental impact of fires in and around Nagorno-Karabakh...
OSCE Chairman calls on leaders to help solve tense "frozen conflicts"
Publishing date: 28 September 2006
VIENNA, 28 September 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Karel De Gucht called today for political leaders to show vision and take responsibility to help solve "frozen conflicts" that threaten to erupt anew at any time. The Minister also...
Statement by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
Publishing date: 6 July 2006
MOSCOW/WASHINGTON/PARIS, 3 July 2006- Taking into account recent speculation about the basic principles for a peaceful settlement of the NK conflict proposed to both parties by the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, it is necessary to make the following...
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs say peaceful resolution to conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is 'imperative and achievable'
Publishing date: 6 June 2006
BUCHAREST, 6 June 2006- The three Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which deals with the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, have issued a statement following their June 4 meeting in Bucharest with the presidents and foreign ministers...
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs urge Armenia and Azerbaijan to prepare their respective publics "for peace, not for war"
Publishing date: 9 March 2006
WASHINGTON, D.C., 9 March 2006- The three Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which deals with the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, have issued a statement regretting the lack of forward movement in negotiations and calling upon Armenia and Azerbaijan...
Chairman says all sides in southern Caucasus showing will for solution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Publishing date: 26 January 2006
MOSCOW, 26 January 2006- Concluding his first visit to the southern Caucasus, OSCE Chairman-in-Office Karel De Gucht held discussions in Baku with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and the representative...
Chairman says OSCE playing role of honest broker in southern Caucasus
Publishing date: 25 January 2006
YEREVAN, 25 January 2006- On the first leg of his visit to the southern Caucasus, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, held discussions with Armenian President Robert Kocharian, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, and...