News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairmanship workshop discusses confidence-building role of economic and environmental activities
Publishing date: 30 May 2011
Participants in an OSCE Chairmanship-organized workshop held in Vienna on 30 May discussed the potential of economic and environmental activities to effectively build confidence and trust...
OSCE supports discussion on how climate change affects food security in Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 27 May 2011
Experts and policy makers from Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine gathered on May 26, 2011 in Kyiv to discuss how food security in the region could be affected by climate change and what measures their governments should start implementing...
OSCE Centre supports new media training for Kazakh-language journalists
Publishing date: 27 May 2011
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 27 May 2011- A two-day training event to improve Kazakh language journalists’ knowledge of the Internet and new media tools began today in Almaty...
Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council calls on government and opposition in Georgia to engage in constructive dialogue
Publishing date: 26 May 2011
At the meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on 26 May 2011 in Vienna, the Chairperson, Lithuanian ambassador Renatas Norkus, expressed his concern about the reports of violent incidents during demonstrations in Tbilisi and called for restraint by all sides...
Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia welcomes arrest of Ratko Mladić
Publishing date: 26 May 2011
BELGRADE, 26 May 2011- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, welcomes the arrest in Serbia todayof the Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladić, who was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), including genocide in Srebrenica...
Deadline for nominations for the Max van der Stoel Award extended to 30 June
Publishing date: 26 May 2011
The deadline for receipt of nominations for the 2011 Max van der Stoel Award, which recognizes outstanding achievements in improving the position of national minorities, has been extended to 30 June 2011.
OSCE organizes discussions on investment in hydropower in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 25 May 2011
More than 40 officials and experts on water energy discussed on 24 May better utilization of hydropower as a step forward in economic development during a seminar in Dushanbe supported by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the Tajik-Norwegian Small-scale Hydro Power Initiative (SHP)...