News and press releases

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 25 and 26 October, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region. Between the evenings of 26 and 27 October, the Mission recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and

BRATISLAVA, 28 October 2019 – Young women and men from across the OSCE region and beyond gathered in Bratislava today to discuss how to best engage youth for a safer future by 2030. The two-day OSCE-wide Youth Forum brings together young people, ambassadors, diplomats and experts for an inter-generational dialogue under the OSCE’s flagship Perspectives 20-30 initiative, a key priority of Slovakia’s OSCE Chair...

COPENHAGEN, 28 October 2019 – Kyriakos Hadjiyianni (MP, Cyprus) and Michael Georg Link (MP, Germany), Chair and Vice-Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee, called today for authorities in Minsk to halt the execution of Viktar Syarhel, who was reportedly sentenced to death in Belarus for killing an eight-month old girl...

The OSCE Mission to Moldova organized two workshops, 24 October in Chisinau and 25 October in Comrat, to enhance professional capacity and co-operation of state institutions working in the field of national minorities' rights. The events brought together some 50 representatives from the Agency for Interethnic Relations, the Ombudsperson’s Office, the Equality Council, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research as well as ethno-cultural and national minority organizations and regional authorities from the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia...

The Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic, in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, organized a three-day meeting on export control from 23 to 25 October 2019 in Aral, Kyrgyzstan. The meeting brought together over thirty licensing, customs and other governmental authorities of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan...

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Two men injured near the Kondrashivka pumping station near non-government-controlled Pankivka.     The Mission saw damage to civilian properties in

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Mission saw damage from small-arms fire to a functioning school in non-government-controlled Zolote-5/Mykhailivka. Inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement