News and press releases

Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons increased at both BCPs compared to the previous week. The ninety-fourth Russian convoy crossed into Ukraine and returned through the Donetsk BCP.

The OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department Border Security and Management Unit (TNTD/BSMU) held a training course on the detection of forged documents and impostors in Ulaanbaatar from 16 to 20 December 2019. The event was organized in co-operation with the University of Internal Affairs of Mongolia and conducted by document experts of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior.

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 20 and 21 December, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region. Between the evenings of 21 and 22 December, the Mission recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and

KYIV, 23 December 2019 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after a meeting of the TCG in form of a videoconference on 23 December 2019:...

TASHKENT, 23 December 2019 – Improvements to Uzbekistan’s election law and greater acceptance of freedom of expression are to be welcomed, but did not offset the absence of opposition parties, a continuing lack of respect for fundamental rights, and some serious irregularities on election day, international observers to the parliamentary elections said in a preliminary statement published today...

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Inside the Zolote disengagement area, the SMM saw workers and deminers from non-government-controlled areas clearing vegetation. Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Small-arms fire was assessed as aimed at an SMM mini-unmanned aerial vehicle on the north-eastern edge of non-government-controlled Raivka, Luhansk region. The