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Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine- based on information received until 18:00 hrs, 12 May (Kyiv time)

Publishing date: 13 May 2014
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The situation in Ukraine remained calm with the exception of Donetsk where the situation remained tense...

Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine- based on information received until 18:00 hrs, 12 May (Kyiv time)

Publishing date: 13 May 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Main Website
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The situation in Ukraine remained calm with the exception of Donetsk where the situation remained tense...

Swiss Chairperson-in-Office receives positive responses to OSCE Roadmap, says implementation is well underway

Publishing date: 12 May 2014
Collections: Swiss Chairmanship takes lead in OSCE Ukraine efforts
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BERN, 12 May 2014- The OSCE Roadmap, drafted in a sense of urgency last week as the situation in Ukraine had deteriorated further, and distributed simultaneously to the four parties of the Geneva Joint Statement of April 17, is an offer to help implementing de-escalation measures in a concrete, structured and effective manner, Burkhalter said...

Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine- based on information received from 18:00, 9 May until 18:00, 11 May (Kyiv time)

Publishing date: 12 May 2014
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The situation in Ukraine remained calm with the exceptions of Donetsk and Luhansk where the situation remained tense. Members of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) were stopped at an illegal checkpoint in the vicinity of Luhansk and released 3 hours later...

OSCE PA’s Kulkuloglu calls for strengthened co-operation among parliamentary bodies

Publishing date: 12 May 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 12 May 2014 – Deepened co-operation and permanent channels of communication between parliamentary bodies are needed to meet today’s challenges, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Mehmet Sevki Kulkuloglu told a gathering of international human rights experts in Warsaw today.

OSCE/ODIHR and HCNM release report by Human Rights Assessment Mission in Ukraine

Publishing date: 12 May 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues
WARSAW / THE HAGUE, 12 May 2014 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) today released the report from the joint Human Rights Assessment Mission the two institutions sent to Ukraine in early March 2014...

Ahead of Ukraine’s elections, OSCE Project Co-ordinator launches voter awareness campaign

Publishing date: 12 May 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Elections
An awareness campaign with the ultimate goal of helping Ukrainian voters to fully exercise their rights in elections was launched on 8 May 2014 by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) upon request from the country’s Central Election Commission...