News and press releases

OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met with leaders and officials in Bucharest on 3 and 4 September 2012 to discuss the work of the OSCE, including resolving protracted conflicts, combating transnational threats and co-operating with other international organizations...

Increasing gender equality within political parties in Moldova was the focus of a roundtable discussion held in Chisinau by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Mission to Moldova on 4 September 2012...

The Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, Ambassador Natalia Zarudna, attended a two-day high-level conference in Kazakhstan on “Constitution: the foundation of social and state modernization,” which was held on 30 and 31 August 2012 in Astana...

The OSCE Office in Yerevan’s Project Implementation Presence (PIP) will help Syunik region administration diversify the local economy and help mitigate the economic security risks of mining, starting in August 2012...

Students of the Central Asian School of Contemporary Journalism of the OSCE Academy and the Deutsche Welle Akademie, a summer school for young journalists, met Federal Minister for Economic Co-operation and Development of Germany Dirk Niebel in Bishkek on 26 August 2012...

Twenty-two secondary school teachers of social sciences from various Armenian regions are participating in a six-day training session in Tsaghkadzor in the Kotayk province of Armenia that concludes on 18 August 2012...

VIENNA, 8 August 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today asked Belarusian authorities to drop charges against Anton Suryapin, who faces up to seven years in prison for uploading photos of teddy bears that had been released by plane into Belarus...