News and press releases

Strengthening North Macedonia’s capacity to identify, investigate and prosecute the financing of terrorism was the focus of a four-day training course, which concluded on 13 May 2022 in Ohrid. The OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) jointly organized the training course with the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje.

On 5 May 2022, journalists and media experts from Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, Germany and the United Kingdom gathered in Dushanbe for an international conference to celebrate World Press Freedom Day.

On 11 May 2022, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, concluded her official visit to France. Ribeiro met with several government representatives and other senior officials from the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of

A two-week training course for 20 mid-level Armenian police officers commenced on 29 April at the Police Education Complex in Yerevan.

The Bureau members of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration concluded their visit to Stockholm, which was organized upon the invitation of Ambassador Carl Magnus Nesser, Director-General for Legal Affairs of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, on 3 May 2022.

On May 11, 2022, the Centre in Ashgabat organized an online roundtable to discuss the pilot project of the roadmap for the development of green hydrogen energy in Turkmenistan. The event is a continuation of a series of events aimed at the development of hydrogen energy in the country. The event

Measures to prevent human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation in supply chains is the focus of the two-day conference that stared on 10 May 2022 in Budva, organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the Office of the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (OSR/CTHB).