News and press releases

The Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin and Rector of the Yerevan State University, Aram Simonyan, signed on 2 March 2012 a Memorandum of Understanding on establishing a Sustainable Development Centre in the Yerevan State University...

Quiet diplomacy has an important role in addressing the root causes of conflicts, stressed the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek in his address to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Winter Session 2012 on 24 February 2012...

Starting in March 2012, the Police Development Department of the OSCE Mission to Skopje is helping to introduce the School Safety project in other municipalities in the country, after having successfully implemented the project in the municipality of Kumanovo...

The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, on a visit to Bucharest on 28 February 2012, met with high-level authorities, including the State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Alina Bica, and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Administration and Interior, Joan Dascalu...

Official negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement began in Dublin on 28 February 2012. The two-day meeting brings together representatives of the sides, mediators and observers in the negotiations- Moldova, Transdniestria, the OSCE, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the US and the EU...

A study on adaptation to climate change in European Union countries and how these experiences could be implemented in Ukraine was discussed by experts and central government policy makers in Kyiv on 28 February 2012...

VIENNA, 27 February 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, called today for the block on news site Fergana.ru in Kyrgyzstan to be lifted and urged the authorities to ensure that the Internet remains free...