News and press releases

The importance of co-operation to prevent military incidents during peacetime was the topic of the session of the Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC), currently under Russia’s Chairmanship, on 24 May 2017. The discussion focused on the Russian Federation’s national experience in the implementation of bilateral agreements on preventing incidents on and over the high seas...

Prosecutors from nine OSCE participating States and officials from the OSCE Presence in Albania and the OSCE Mission to Skopje took part in a train-the-trainers event on countering hate crime organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw from 23 to 25

The Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU) of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department introduced the OSCE’s project on intelligence-led policing at a side event of UNODC’s annual Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna on 25 May 2017. The event was organized in co-operation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...

ASTANA, 23 May 2017 – An OSCE-supported four-day regional training seminar for military officers on the practical implementation of the confidence- and security-building measures of the Vienna Document 2011 began today in Astana...

The OSCE Mission to Moldova organized the second in a series of Human Rights Club meetings for lawyers from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River on 19 May 2017. The event, held in Chisinau, brought together some 40 lawyers and civil society representatives to discuss current ethical norms and standard practices governing the legal profession...

BELGRADE, 23 May 2017 – The OSCE Mission to Serbia, in partnership with the National School of Defence of the Military Academy, launched today in Belgrade a course on defence and security issues for some 20 members of the Serbian National Assembly...

VIENNA, 23 May 2017 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, expressing deep shock, condemned the horrific terrorist attack last night in Manchester and offer sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims...