News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs meet with Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in New York
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
NEW YORK, 27 September 2012- The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the United States of America, Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, and Jacques Faure of France) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, met on September 26 with the Foreign Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian, and on September 27 with the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov.
OSCE supports broader dialogue on digital broadcasting in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
DUSHANBE, 27 September 2012 – Some 80 members of the Public Council under the President as well as invited experts and stakeholders discussed the switchover to digital terrestrial TV broadcast in Tajikistan at an OSCE-supported Social Partnership Club meeting today...
OSCE Mission welcomes agreement on greater communication and co-ordination between parliaments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
SARAJEVO, 27 September 2012 – The OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina today welcomed efforts to improve inter-parliamentary co-operation demonstrated at a three-day seminar in Jahorina with secretaries of working bodies from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s four parliaments...
Participants at OSCE human rights conference urge governments to tackle root causes of racism and violence against Roma
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
Governments must take more decisive steps to counter anti-Roma rhetoric and violence, said participants at the annual OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw on 27 September 2012...
OSCE media freedom representative deplores Italian criminal defamation ruling, urges law reform
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
VIENNA, 27 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today called on the Italian authorities to reform libel laws following an Italian high court ruling upholding the criminal conviction and 14-month prison sentence imposed on Allessandro Sallusti, former editor of the newspaper Libero...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo trains municipal officials on assistance available to repatriated persons
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
On 25 September 2012 the OSCE Mission and the Kosovo Employment Promotion Agency concluded a series of two-day workshops on accessing income generation assistance from the central-level reintegration fund for municipal officers for communities and returns (MOCRs) from 25 municipalities...
OSCE Special Representative urges Azerbaijan to enhance measures for addressing labour trafficking
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, in a three-day trip to Baku from 24 to 26 September 2012 called on the government to increase efforts to combat trafficking for labour exploitation, particularly in cases involving labour migrants in construction and domestic work...