News and press releases

VIENNA, 4 January 2005- The OSCE's new Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, is to make his first foreign visit in this capacity to Ukraine on 4 and 5 January. The Chairman-in-Office is scheduled to arrive in Kyiv late on...

KYIV, 27 December 2004- The repeat second round of the presidential election in Ukraine on 26 December brought Ukraine substantially closer to meeting international standards. Throughout the election an engaged civil society demonstrated an active...

KYIV, 16 December 2004- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) has extended its election observation mission in Ukraine to follow the repeat of the second round of the presidential election scheduled for...

WARSAW, 6 December 2004- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights issued a set of recommendations today that calls on the authorities of Ukraine to address a number of issues of concern prior to the re-run of the second round of...

SOFIA, 6 December 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, called for an active OSCE role in helping Ukraine with the re-run of its presidential elections and asked OSCE Secretary General Jan Kubis to return to Kyiv...

SOFIA, 4 December 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine to declare the second round of the presidential elections invalid and pledged the full support of the Organization when the vote is re-run...

VIENNA, 3 December 2004- OSCE Secretary General Jan Kubis will return to Ukraine late on Friday at the request of Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy to resume high-level political consultations in the wake of the second round of the presidential election.