News and press releases

The OSCE Mission to Serbia organized a visit of representatives from the Serbian Government and other relevant institutions to discuss State-language education in Serbia with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Astrid Thors on 11 and 12 March 2015 in The Hague...

“The Geneva International Discussions are and remain the only inclusive platform for dialogue,” said OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier during an official visit to Georgia on 8-11 March 2015...

The review of the legal framework and enhancing capacity and authority of the campaign finance oversight body are two of the main recommendations contained in the final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the 30 November 2014 parliamentary elections in Moldova.

A new documentary film chronicling the activities of the OSCE Community Security Initiative (CSI) in Kyrgyzstan was released on 10 March 2015. The CSI, part of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, supports the Kyrgyz police in its efforts to build trust between the police and citizens as well as to enhance the capabilities and skills of the local police in community policing, human security, and the use of Mobile Police Reception vehicles.

Existing practices on electoral dispute resolution were the focus of a roundtable meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 9 and 10 March 2015, in Warsaw.

The first meeting of the OSCE-supported Working Group on developing an Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) certification programme for the financial sector was held on 10 March 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...

Twenty-five women officials from the Mongolian border-related agencies completed a five-day training course in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 6 March 2015 on border security and management. The course was organized by the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department...