News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE helps Ukraine to introduce information management system for mine action
Publishing date: 4 December 2015
MEREFA, Ukraine, 4 December 2015– A first group of 12 Ukrainian emergency personnel officers completed a four-day training course today on operation of an information management system for mine action (IMSMA), organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine at the State Emergency Service training facility in Kharkiv oblast...
Robust diplomatic process needed to replace mutual recrimination with rebuilding trust in Europe, conclude Panel of Eminent Persons
Publishing date: 3 December 2015
BELGRADE, 3 December 2015- A diplomatic process that explores the common problems of European States carefully, confidentially and systematically is needed to overcome the current divisions and uncertainties over security, concludes the final report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project, presented today on the margins of the 22nd OSCE Ministerial Council in Belgrade...
Statement by the OSCE Troika welcoming Final Report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project
Publishing date: 3 December 2015
BELGRADE, 3 December 2015- Today, the Panel of Eminent Persons has published its Final Report, one year after the Panel was launched jointly by Switzerland, Serbia and Germany at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Basel...
OSCE Troika meets at Ministerial Council in Belgrade, calls for further measures to strengthen ceasefire in Ukraine
Publishing date: 3 December 2015
BELGRADE, 3 December 2015- During the Ministerial Meeting of the OSCE Troika on the margins of the 22nd Ministerial Council in Belgrade, the Foreign Ministers of the current, previous and incoming OSCE Chairmanships- Serbia, Switzerland and Germany, respectively – reaffirmed their full support to the political process within the Trilateral Contact Group and the work of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), emphasizing that the Minsk agreements should be fully implemented. This implies upholding the ceasefire and moving forward with the political process...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 2 December 2015
Publishing date: 3 December 2015
The SMM recorded some explosions in Donetsk region, including in the area around Donetsk airport, and small-arms fire in Luhansk region. Its freedom of movement was restricted four times in areas not controlled by the Government, resulting, in one instance, in not being able to reach the respective border regions...
OSCE conducts seminar for judges from relocated administrative courts in Eastern Ukraine on human rights protection
Publishing date: 3 December 2015
An OSCE-supported two-day seminar on the protection of human rights and application of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for 60 judges working in the relocated administrative courts from Donetsk and Luhansk regions concluded in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, today 3 December 2015....
Far-reaching action needed in world ‘spiralling out of control,’ OSCE PA President tells foreign ministers
Publishing date: 3 December 2015
BELGRADE, 3 December 2015 – Far-reaching action by the international community is needed to deal with a world that “sometimes seems to be spiralling out of control,” OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) said today in an address to foreign ministers assembled in Belgrade at the 2015 OSCE Ministerial Council...