News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE-supported summer seminar to build trust among communities
Publishing date: 15 July 2011
Seventy young people from both sides of the Dniestr/Nistru River are participating in a summer school in Molovata Noua, Moldova, from 7 to 17 July 2011. The school aims to raise awareness among young people of the role of civil society in dealing with environmental issues...
OSCE media freedom representative calls on governments to recognize access to the Internet as a human right
Publishing date: 15 July 2011
WASHINGTON, 15 July 2011 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, called on governments to treat Internet access as a human right that should be enshrined in their constitutions, in testimony today at the U.S. Helsinki Commission...
OSCE condemns attempt to intimidate independent media in Montenegro
Publishing date: 15 July 2011
VIENNA/PODGORICA, 15 July 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, and Šarūnas Adomavičius, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro today condemned the deliberate burning by unknown perpetrators of two vehicles belonging to the Montenegrin daily “Vijesti”...
OSCE Centre helps promote integrated water resource management in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 15 July 2011
ASTANA, 15 July 2010 – Representatives of the OSCE Centre in Astana, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Kazakhstan, the Presidential Administration, state agencies, international organizations, academia, diplomatic corps and non-governmental stakeholders met today to discuss implementing integrated water resource management (IWRM) principles in the country...
OSCE Secretary General offers condolences, assistance to Turkmenistan following Abadan explosion
Publishing date: 15 July 2011
VIENNA, 15 July 2011 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, expressing his condolences to the President and people of Turkmenistan over the tragic explosion in Abadan, today offered OSCE assistance with clearance and securing stocks of arms and ammunition...
OSCE role in preventing proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in focus at meeting in Vienna
Publishing date: 14 July 2011
Representatives of the 56 OSCE participating States on 13 July 2011 discussed how to best r implement U.N. Security Council Resolution 1540, which obliges signatories to take measures against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, including chemical, biological and nuclear weapons...
Black Sea co-operation organization, OSCE, to strengthen joint work
Publishing date: 14 July 2011
Ambassador Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, Secretary General of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Co-operation Permanent International Secretariat, told the OSCE Permanent Council on 14 July 2011 that his organization hoped to enhance its co-operation with the OSCE in the field of economic and environmental security...