News and press releases

An OSCE-supported workshop on the role of public hearings as a tool for enhancing public participation in environmental decision-making took place on 26 June 2015, in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan...

COPENHAGEN, 25 June 2015 – The crisis in and around Ukraine, the plight of migrants and refugees, arms control, climate change and minority rights are among a diverse array of critical security issues on the agenda at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Annual Session next month...

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro continues to support the country’s Ministry of Justice in implementing key policies, bearing in mind the successful co-operation and results achieved in line with the host country’s needs, said the Head of the Mission, Ambassador Janina Hrebickova, during a meeting with Justice Minister Zoran Pazin...

Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Janina Hrebickova, met on 22 June 2015 Montenegrin Deputy Prime Minister Dusko Markovic to discuss further engagement of OSCE and its continued support to Montenegro in the implementation of its key strategic national priorities...

Elections experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) met with electoral stakeholders in Sarajevo on 24 and 25 June 2015 to present recommendations from the final report on the 12 October 2014 general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Serbia’s 2015 OSCE Chairmanship, the OSCE’s Conflict Prevention Centre and the OSCE Missions to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to Montenegro participated in the fifth 2BS Security Forum on "The Future Perspectives of a Global Security Architecture" held from 4 to 6 June 2015 in Budva, Montenegro...

Effective responses based on the rule of law in countering terrorism were the focus of a two-day seminar organized in Skopje by the OSCE in co-operation with the National Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors on 24-25 June 2015...