News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Municipal elections efficiently administered and highly competitive, but playing field not always level, observers say
Publishing date: 25 March 2013
SKOPJE, 25 March 2013 – The municipal elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia were highly competitive and efficiently administered, but partisan media coverage and a blurring of state and party activities did not always provide a level playing field, international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities concluded in a statement issued today...
OSCE discusses harmonizing migration data in Russia and Central Asia
Publishing date: 25 March 2013
MOSCOW, 25 March 2013 – An OSCE-led seminar on improving the collection, usage and exchange of comparable data on migration in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan started today in Moscow...
OSCE media freedom representative presents legal review of Georgian broadcasting law amendments
Publishing date: 25 March 2013
LONDON, 25 March 2013 – OSCE media freedom representative Dunja Mijatović, in a letter to the Georgian Foreign Minister, Maia Panjikidze, today presented a legal review of amendments to the Georgian broadcasting law, emphasizing the need to ensure the full functioning of the public broadcaster during the transition period.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan supports fight against illicit drugs
Publishing date: 25 March 2013
TASHKENT, 25 March 2013 – Addressing the challenges of illicit drug trafficking is the focus of a three-day seminar supported by the OSCE that opened today in Tashkent...
Head of OSCE Mission to Moldova discusses freedom of movement with Transdniestrian leader
Publishing date: 21 March 2013
TIRASPOL, 21 March 2013- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Jennifer Brush, met today in Tiraspol with Transdniestrian leader Evgeny Shevchuk and chief negotiator Nina Shtanski to discuss issues related to the 5+2 negotiations, including education and freedom of movement between both banks of the Dniester/Nistru river. The situation in the Security Zone was also discussed...
OSCE Mission presents Model Local Action Plan against corruption in Montenegro
Publishing date: 21 March 2013
Strengthening mechanisms for the fight against corruption on the local level was the topic of an event organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Interior Ministry and the Union of Municipalities on 20 March 2013 in Podgorica...
Joint Statement on International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Publishing date: 21 March 2013
VIENNA, WARSAW, STRASBOURG, 21 March 2013 – The social fallout from the ongoing global economic crisis must not become an excuse to allow racism and prejudice to go unchecked, said Morten Kjaerum, Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and Eva Smith Asmussen, Chair of the Council of Europe's European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), in a joint statement to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...