News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Community Security Initiative experts discuss confidence-building in southern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 28 April 2011
On 27-28 April, two senior managers of the OSCE’s Community Security Initiative (CSI) working in southern Kyrgyzstan participated in a round table discussion in the city of Uzgen on the role of young people in promoting stability in the Republic...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned over possible closure of two independent newspapers in Belarus
Publishing date: 28 April 2011
VIENNA, 28 April 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed alarm today over the lawsuits filed by the Belarusian Information Ministry aimed at shutting down Nasha Niva and Narodnaya Volya, two of the country’s largest independent publications...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek holds joint training for Afghan and Kyrgyz customs officers
Publishing date: 27 April 2011
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek held training sessions on vehicle and container searches and border operations for Kyrgyz and Afghan customs officers at the customs point Ak-Jol on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border. Twenty participants from Afghanistan, including three trainers, together with customs instructors from the Training Centre of the State Customs Service of Kyrgyzstan as well as customs officers working at Ak-Jol border point, attended the course...
OSCE expresses sorrow over death of Max van der Stoel
Publishing date: 26 April 2011
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek offered their deepest condolences to the Netherlands’ Government and the relatives of Max van der Stoel, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country and the first OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, who died on 23 April at the age of 86...
OSCE Office holds training for Armenian Defence Ministry public information officers
Publishing date: 26 April 2011
YEREVAN, 26 April 2011 –– A two-day training course on public relations and freedom of information for Armenian Defence Ministry information service officers started in Yerevan today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan holds course on assistance for trafficking victims
Publishing date: 26 April 2011
A three-day workshop with Uzbekistan’s state agencies and civil society to better protect and assist the victims and survivors of human trafficking opened in Tashkent on 26 April 2011...
OSCE Centre supports rehabilitation for drug and alcohol-addicted inmates in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 21 April 2011
Fifty representatives of rehabilitation centres, prisons’ administrations, international organizations and civil society took part in an OSCE-supported event to celebrate the seventh anniversary of "Atlantis" rehabilitation centres for drug and alcohol-addicted inmates on 21 April, 2011 at the Training Centre of the State Service of Execution of Punishment in Bishkek...