News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Kyrgyzstan hosts regional meeting on export control for licensing and customs authorities in Central Asia
Publishing date: 28 October 2019
The Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic, in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, organized a three-day meeting on export control from 23 to 25 October 2019 in Aral, Kyrgyzstan. The meeting brought together over thirty licensing, customs and other governmental authorities of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes release of several journalists in Turkey, calls for further reforms that ensure better legal protection
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
VIENNA, 25 October 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, welcomed today the release of several journalists in Turkey.
OSCE Media Freedom Representative Désir and OSCE Head of Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Kavalec strongly condemn threat against Žurnal journalist
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
VIENNA / SARAJEVO, 25 October 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kathleen Kavalec, strongly condemned today a death threat sent to Avdo Avdić, a journalist of the Žurnal news website...
OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime deliver training course on countering terrorist financing in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
A three-day training course aimed at further strengthening the capacity of Uzbekistan to counter terrorist financing concluded in Tashkent on 25 October 2019...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro organizes workshop on security sector oversight for parliamentarians
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
Parliamentary oversight of the security sector was the topic of a two-day workshop organized in Podgorica by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro for members of the country’s parliament and parliamentary staff on 24 and 25 October 2019...
Students learn about security sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina at OSCE-supported course
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
More than 20 students of law, political, and security studies from universities in Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Mostar, Tuzla and Zenica learnt about the security sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) at a five-day OSCE-supported Youth and Security School, which concluded on 25 October 2019 in Sarajevo...
OSCE PA Political and Security Affairs Committee Chair issues statement on the Open Skies Treaty
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
COPENHAGEN, 25 October 2019 – In response to reports that the current U.S. administration is considering withdrawing from the Open Skies Treaty, a multilateral agreement establishing a system of unarmed observation flights over the territories of 34 State Parties, Filippo Lombardi, Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Political Affairs and Security, issued the following statement...