News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports training seminar in Uzbekistan on international transport law
Publishing date: 9 November 2011
TASHKENT, 9 November 2011 – The advantages of international agreements on transport and harmonization of legislation as well as the environmental security aspects of transport are the focus of a two-day OSCE-supported seminar which started in Tashkent today...
OSCE hosts regional workshop on combating trafficking in human beings
Publishing date: 9 November 2011
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 9 November 2011 – The fourth annual workshop on promoting law enforcement and judicial cooperation among source, transit and destination countries in response to human trafficking and migrant smuggling in Central Asia began in Almaty today...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes media legislation reform in Uzbekistan, says new technologies must result in more, not less media freedom
Publishing date: 8 November 2011
TASHKENT, 8 November 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed today the readiness of Uzbekistan’s authorities to reform media legislation, which is needed to ensure media diversity...
OSCE Chairperson welcomes Joint Ministerial Declaration on addressing refugee situation in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 7 November 2011
VILNIUS, 7 November 2011- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed the Joint Declaration signed by the four countries involved in the regional process on ending displacement and ensuring solutions for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), in Belgrade today. He underscored the importance of this process for security and stability in South-Eastern Europe...
Mediators and observers on Transdniestrian settlement visit Chisinau and Tiraspol
Publishing date: 5 November 2011
CHISINAU, 5 November 2011 – The mediators and the observers in the Transdniestrian settlement process, who concluded a two-day visit to meet the political leadership in Chisinau and Tiraspol today, welcomed the decision of the sides to accept the invitation of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to meet in Vilnius on 30 November-1 December for the first official 5+2 meeting following a nearly six years hiatus...
OSCE to support feasibility study of Nubarashen toxic waste site in Armenia
Publishing date: 4 November 2011
YEREVAN, 7 November 2011 – Carel Hofstra, Acting Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, and Armenian Minister of Emergency Situations Armen Yeritsyan signed a memorandum of understanding today to launch an environmental security project to address the risks of a toxic waste site...
OSCE Secretary General meets Turkmenistan’s leadership, discusses engagement with Afghanistan, energy security
Publishing date: 4 November 2011
The OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov and the Mejlis Speaker Akja Nurberdyyeva on his first official visit to Ashgabat on 3 November 2011...