News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE participating States make progress in updating Vienna Document to revitalize confidence and security building
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
A special meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation, currently chaired by Kazakhstan, adopted a decision on 30 November 2011 on reissuing a document that encompasses key OSCE confidence- and security-building measures, the Vienna Document...
States need to co-operate better to support social inclusion of trafficked persons, says OSCE Special Representative
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, addressed an expert seminar organized by the Polish Presidency of the European Union in Warsaw on 30 November 2011 on trafficking in human beings in the EU and Eastern Partnership countries...
OSCE Secretary General meets new President of Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met the newly inaugurated President of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev, on 1 December 2011...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports fight against child pornography on Internet
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
Some 20 law enforcement investigators from the police services of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia participated in a three-day regional training course on the use of new computer software to fight cybercrime...
EUBAM head addresses OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
The Head of the EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM), Udo Burkholder, addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on 1 December 2011. He outlined the activities and future priority areas of EUBAM, whose mandate was recently extended for the third time into 2015...
First official 5+2 talks after renewal lay ground for further progress on Transdniestrian settlement, says OSCE Chairperson
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
VILNIUS, 1 December 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, said that the renewed official 5+2 negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement, which concluded in Vilnius today, laid solid ground for the future work on promoting the conflict resolution...
Recommendations for strengthening detention monitoring discussed at OSCE-led meeting in Chişinău
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
CHIŞINĂU, 1 December 2011 – A set of recommendations on how to strengthen local commissions which monitor places of detention in Moldova was presented at a roundtable meeting held by the OSCE Mission to Moldova and the nongovernmental Moldovan Institute on Human Rights in Chişinău today...