News and press releases

“Inter-cultural dialogue should not only lead to a deeper understanding of the other, but also include conflict prevention and de-escalation, combating prejudices and stereotypes in the public and political discourse,” Ambassador Alexis Chahtahtinsky, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku, said in his remarks at the Third World Forum on Intercultural Dialogues that took place in Baku on 18-19 May 2015...

The promotion of gender equality was among the challenges faced by Roma and Sinti women that were the focus of a consultation meeting for Roma and Sinti women activists at the Warsaw headquarters of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 18 and 19 May 2015.

OSCE-supported second bilateral meeting of Parliamentary Committees for Environmental Protection from Montenegro and Albania was held in Podgorica on 15 May 2015. The Chairs of the committees, Predrag Sekulic from Montenegro and Eduard Shalsi from Albania, and their deputies discussed possible joint activities...

A three-day workshop on ways to integrate anti-corruption assessment into the legal policy of Tajikistan concluded at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan on 15 May 2015...

The OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz State Border Service and the local government in Batken, southern Kyrgyzstan, conducted a meeting aimed at early-warning and conflict-prevention on May 16...

The OSCE Mission to Skopje signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Gjorce Petrov municipality, on 15 May 2015, to introduce the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) model as quality instrument in the work of the municipal administration...

On 14 May 2015, the OSCE Mission to Moldova started a series of public lectures at Comrat University, as part of the project supporting participation of youth from Gagauzia in public and political life...