News and press releases

COPENHAGEN, 18 June 2014 – Sustained work towards a new universal climate agreement, regulations to limit the risk of financial crashes and continued attention to the economic impacts of migration are among the recommendations made by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment (Second Committee) in its draft resolution for the PA’s upcoming Annual Session...

Criminal justice experts from OSCE participating States, executive structures and international organizations gathered in Vienna at the OSCE’s Annual Police Experts Meeting which started in Vienna on 17 June 2014...

The situation across the country was calm, except parts of Donbas where tensions remained. There was no substantive change to the security situation in Donetsk city, which- on the surface at least- remained calm. Repairs to a key Donetsk water-supply pipeline were underway. The SMM has not reestablished communication with the four monitors from the Donetsk team and four monitors from the Luhansk team with whom it lost contact on 26 May and 29 May respectively...

A youth forum organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw on 16 and 17 June 2014 focused on promoting political participation of young leaders in the OSCE region.

VIENNA, 17 June 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said she was deeply saddened by the death of Russian journalist Igor Kornelyuk in eastern Ukraine. Mijatović expressed her sincere condolences to Kornelyuk’s family and colleagues...

Sixty-two young prospective leaders mainly from Georgia gathered at the Ministry for Sports and Youth Affairs in Tbilisi for the launch of the OSCE project "Building an OSCE Youth Network in Georgia" on Friday 13 June 2014...

Representatives from the President Office, parliament, the Supreme Court, law enforcement agencies, the government and civil society gathered in Bishkek on 17 June 2014 to discuss rule of law and judicial reforms in Kyrgyzstan...