News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE promotes conservation payment for ecosystem services in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 8 September 2011
ASTANA, 8 September 2011 – Charging for ecosytem services to invest in more coherent and effective nature conservation is the focus of a two-day OSCE-organized workshop that started in Astana today...
Statement by the Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia on developments in South Serbia
Publishing date: 8 September 2011
BELGRADE, 8 September 2011 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, made the following statement today...
States parties to Dayton arms control agreement on the way to assuming full responsibility
Publishing date: 8 September 2011
The Parties to a key arms control agreement involved in the 1995 crisis in South Eastern Europe are ready to take over from the international community, reported Brig. Gen. Costanzo Periotto of Italy, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for Article IV of Annex 1B of the Dayton Peace Accords, to the OSCE Permanent Council on 8 September 2011...
OSCE Chairperson, on tenth anniversary of 9/11 attacks, expresses solidarity with American people, calls for intensified co-operation against transnational threats
Publishing date: 8 September 2011
VILNIUS, 8 September 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, speaking ahead of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, today expressed solidarity with the people of the United States and called for intensified co-operation among OSCE participating States and Partner countries to counter transnational threats...
OSCE Head of Mission meets Montenegrin Police Director to discuss arson attacks against newspaper Vijesti, regional co-operation to fight crime
Publishing date: 7 September 2011
The OSCE Head of Mission, Ambassador Šarunas Adomavičius, met the Director of Montenegro's police, Veselin Veljovic, on 6 September 2011 to discuss the continuing police investigation into the three arson attacks on vehicles owned by daily newspaper Vijesti on 14 and 23 July and on 27 August....
Statement of the UN, OSCE and EU Special Envoys on the situation in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 7 September 2011
BISHKEK, 7 September 2011- The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia Miroslav Jenča, the OSCE Chairperson’s Special Envoy for Kyrgyzstan Adam Kobieracki and EU Special Representative for Central Asia Pierre Morel visited Kyrgyzstan today...
UN Director-General, addressing OSCE States, emphasizes co-operation on transnational threats, conflict prevention
Publishing date: 7 September 2011
VIENNA, 7 September 2011 – Joint efforts are needed to combat terrorism and other transnational threats as well as to promote peace and respect for human rights, said Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, in an address to OSCE participating States in Vienna today...