News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Representative highlights journalists’ safety, Internet governance in report to Permanent Council
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, told participating States there was still much to be done to end violence against journalists in her last official report of the year to the OSCE Permanent Council on 29 November 2012...
OSCE helps train Kazakhstan’s international election observers
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
On 29 November 2012, representatives of the OSCE Centre in Astana and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights spoke at a training seminar on international election observers’ rights and responsibilities organized by Kazakhstan’s Central Election Commission...
OSCE Mission to Skopje completes training of legal practitioners on new criminal procedure
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
The OSCE Mission to Skopje is holding its final basic training course for legal practitioners and law enforcement officials on the new adversarial and parties-driven criminal procedure from 29 November till 2 December 2012...
OSCE Secretary General, in London, meets Foreign Secretary
Publishing date: 28 November 2012
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met UK Foreign Secretary William Hague in London on 28 November 2012...
Transdniestrian settlement negotiations started in Dublin
Publishing date: 28 November 2012
DUBLIN, 28 November 2012 – Official negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement started in Dublin today. The three-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...
OSCE Secretary General discusses co-operation with EU at European Parliament in Brussels
Publishing date: 27 November 2012
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier exchanged views with representatives of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs at a joint meeting of the Subcommittees on Security and Defence and on Human Rights in Brussels on 26 November 2012...
OSCE promotes discussion on democratic reform process in Uzbekistan’s regions
Publishing date: 27 November 2012
Challenges faced by the regions is the focus of a two-day workshop started on 27 November 2012 in Nukus, the capital of Uzbekistan’s autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan...