News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Mission to Montenegro supports regional capacity building training for Regional Youth Co-operation Office beneficiaries
Publishing date: 12 September 2019
The OSCE-supported regional capacity building training for the Regional Youth Co-operation Office (RYCO) beneficiaries to be supported within the second RYCO Open Call for Project Proposals, is taking place in Podgorica from 12 to 16 September 2019...
Kyrgyzstan hosts the third international trade exhibition “South-Expo 2019”
Publishing date: 12 September 2019
Promoting regional trade and co-operation in the Central Asian region is an important part of the OSCE’s confidence building in the area of economic and environmental activities. Over 1,500 entrepreneurs arrived in Osh to participate at the third international trade exhibition “South-Expo”, a two-day event that concluded on 12 September 2019...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro donates forensic equipment to national Forensic Centre
Publishing date: 11 September 2019
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro donated forensic equipment valued at €33,700 to the Forensic Centre in Danilovgrad on 11 September 2019...
OSCE continues to support Kyrgyzstan's efforts to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1540
Publishing date: 10 September 2019
A two-day roundtable discussion on the 2017-2019 National Action Plan (NAP) on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 on effective measures against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is taking place from 9 to 11 September 2019 in the Issyk-Kul province, Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE helps to promote employment for persons with disabilities in Kyrgyzstan’s civil service
Publishing date: 9 September 2019
The OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek supported a roundtable discussion on the development of inclusive employment processes for persons with disabilities (PwD) in the state and municipal service in Bishkek on 6 September 2019.
Combatting trafficking in human beings focus of OSCE-supported training seminar in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 9 September 2019
An OSCE-supported training seminar on combatting human trafficking concluded on 6 September 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Some 28 representatives of the flag carrier “Air Astana” and the Education Centres of the Committee of Civil Aviation of the Republic of Kazakhstan from the cities of Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Aktau and Shymkent participated in the event.
OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes release of Sentsov, Sushchenko and Vyshinsky, thanks both countries for this achievement
Publishing date: 7 September 2019
VIENNA, 7 September 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, welcomed today’s release of Ukrainian film director and writer Oleg Sentsov from Crimea, of the correspondent of the Ukrainian National News Agency, Ukrinform, Roman Sushchenko, and of journalist Kirill Vyshinsky, the chief of the RIA Novosti Ukraina office in Kyiv, as a result of the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine...