News and press releases

As part of its long-standing efforts in the area of human rights and non-discrimination, the OSCE Mission to Serbia in co-operation with the Office for Human and Minority Rights of the Government of Serbia, on 23 February 2015 launched their new documentary film Neighbours, which showcases the achievements of National Minority Councils in protecting the rights of persons belonging to national minorities in the country...

A regional workshop on access to justice in environmental matters was organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities in Tbilisi, Georgia on 19-20 February 2015...

Experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) met with Icelandic Members of the Althingi, Iceland’s parliament, and representatives from the Office of the Prime Minister, government ministries, and all levels of the election administration, in Reykjavik on 19-20 February to discuss the follow-up on the recommendations from ODIHR’s final reports on the 2009 and 2013 parliamentary elections.

The OSCE’s comprehensive approach to security, which embraces human rights and democracy, economics and environment as well as politico-military security, offers a powerful antidote to violent extremism, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier told high-level officials from around the world at the Ministerial Meeting of the White House Countering Violent Extremism Summit in Washington, DC, on 19 February 2015...

YEREVAN, 20 February 2015 – The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, James Warlick of the United States of America, and Pierre Andrieu of France) traveled to the region on February 16-19. They were joined by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk...

VIENNA, 19 February 2015- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić today met his Special Representative in Ukraine Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini, OSCE Chief Monitor in Ukraine Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan and OSCE Chief Observer at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk Paul Picard, who informed the Chair about their activities and the challenges they face in their work...

On 13 February 2015 the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier concluded a three-day working visit to Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk. During the visit, Zannier held meetings with government officials, representatives of the regional administration and civil society. In Dnipropetrovsk, he visited the Centre for internally displaced persons (IDPs), to which he handed over a donation of 20,000 Euros from the OSCE charity fund...