News and press releases

The Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia, Sergi Kapanadze, addressed representatives of the 56 OSCE participating States at a Permanent Council meeting in Vienna on 20 September 2012. Kapanadze outlined his country’s perspectives on security in the region and on the role of the OSCE.

A team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) visited Belgrade from 17 to 19 September 2012 to present the final report of the Limited Election Observation Mission for the 6 and 20 May parliamentary and early presidential elections in Serbia...

On 19 September 2012, Ambassador Natalia Zarudna, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, spoke at a presentation of the 2011 Annual Human Rights Situation Report translated and published with the support from the Centre...

OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier spoke before the Italian Parliament in Rome on 18 September 2012...

An OSCE-supported seminar on integrating gender issues into policies for civil servants from Kazakhstan started in Astana on 18 September 2012...

Uniform interpretation of the election legislation is the focus of two training seminars for Ukraine’s administrative court judges that started on 18 September 2012 in Odessa with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...

Four senior police and drug enforcement officials from Turkmenistan participated in an OSCE-supported study visit to the United States that concluded on 14 September 2012...