News and press releases

From 5-9 September, the OSCE, jointly with the Institute for Teaching and Port Research of the Normandy Business School (IPER) is conducting a week-long training for female professionals of the ports of Baku (Azerbaijan), Aktau and Kuryk (Kazakhstan), Constantza (Romania) and the Maritime Agency of Georgia at the port of Le Havre, France. The event is part of the hybrid course, OSCE-IPER Women in Port Management.

The OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation remains the forum in which to discuss security issues, despite Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine emphasised Deputy Permanent Representative Fiel Vanthemsche as he outlined Belgium’s priorities as FSC Chair during today’s opening session.

The April 2022 presidential election in France was competitive and pluralistic, and fundamental freedoms were respected. Voters were provided with ample and diverse information enabling them to make an informed choice among the 12 candidates, and the election administration worked effectively and

VIENNA, 6 September 2022 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, today condemned the shutdown of Novaya Gazeta newspaper and reiterated her call on the Russian authorities to fully respect OSCE media freedom commitments.

Participants of a two-day regional conference “Countering online Child Exploitation in Southeast Europe”, organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro on 5 and 6 September 2022 in Budva, shared approaches and experiences and committed to improve their regional co-operation in providing an effective response to online sexual exploitation of children.

From 1 to 3 September, the OSCE Presence in Albania supported the organization of an exchange workshop in Vienna for journalists covering parliamentary affairs in Albania. The delegation consisted of nearly a dozen of journalists from different media outlets in Albania plus representatives from the

Integrating a gender sensitive and gender inclusive approach in border security and management in times of crisis and conflict was the focus of a roundtable discussion organized by the OSCE Border Management Staff College on 2 September 2022 in Vienna.