News and press releases

PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 8 April 2011 – The OSCE Mission in Kosovo today launched a project to support production of programmes in languages other than Albanian at the Radio and Television of Kosovo (RTK)...

The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, and the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Henk van den Dool, visited the Albanian Assembly on 5 April 2011. They were received by Speaker Jozefina Topalli to mark the conclusion of the Dutch funded phases (2002-2010) of a parliamentary support project implemented by the Presence...

Leading researchers, students and OSCE representatives met at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University on 5 April 2011 to discuss Euro-Atlantic security and multi-track diplomacy.

Criminal justice response practices require significant change to strengthen anti-trafficking action, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, said during an international training seminar focusing on penal law, migration, trafficking and international co-operation, in Rome on 5 April.

The OSCE Mission to Serbia in partnership with the Italian Embassy in Belgrade on 6 and 7 April 2011 organized a seminar on effective and transparent methods for managing temporarily seized assets deriving from criminal activity. The seminar was the first of its kind...

VILNIUS, 5 April 2011- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, today discussed Kazakhstan's 3 April presidential elections with Kazakhstan's Secretary of State and Foreign Minister, Kanat Saudabayev...

VIENNA, 5 April 2011 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said today she is concerned about persistent reports that pressure is mounting against domestic and foreign journalists in Belarus...