News and press releases

A team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) began a two-day familiarization visit to Georgia on 7 February 2013 in preparation for planned monitoring of trials involving senior political figures...

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek visited Serbia from 28 to 31 January 2013 to meet key Serbian officials, including President Tomislav Nikolić and Prime Minister Ivica Dačić, and to follow up on several issues of his concern in eastern and southern Serbia...

On 6 February 2013, the Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, met with General Prosecutor Adriatik Llalla to discuss the fight against organized crime and corruption, and the pivotal role of the Prosecutor’s office in strengthening the rule of law...

An OSCE-supported project to allow web-streaming of sessions of the Armenian Central Electoral Commission (CEC) was publicly presented to the media and the international community in Yerevan on 5 February 2013...

Kyrgyzstan’s first resource centre on border delimitation and demarcation was opened on 1 February 2013 in the city of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan...

The OSCE Centre in Astana jointly with the Embassy of Norway organized a study trip to Oslo for parliamentarians and the head and members of the National Commission on Women’s Affairs and Family Demographic Policy under the President of Kazakhstan from 30 January to 1 February 2013...

The OSCE Presence in Albania concluded on 30 January 2013 a project aimed at helping young people with disabilities more efficiently advocate their rights and get more involved in public life...