News and press releases

VIENNA, 6 September 2019 – A recommitment to the unlimited ceasefire that started on 21 July is a major contributing factor towards the improvement of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, SMM Chief Monitor Yaşar Halit Çevik said yesterday in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna...

NUR-SULTAN, 6 September 2019- OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Lamberto Zannier is concluding today his first official visit to Kazakhstan since taking up his mandate...

Following Albania’s local elections on 30 June 2019, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has published its final report. While voting was conducted in a generally peaceful and orderly manner, the elections were held with little regard for the interests of the

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and a similar number of ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. While conducting an impact site assessment in Pikuzy, the Mission heard small-arms fire and saw a bullet impact the

A four-day study visit to Copenhagen and Malmo organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan in co-operation with the Nordic Council of Ministers concluded on 5 September. Representatives of the municipality of Tashkent responsible for urban and mobility planning and members of the Cycling Federation of Uzbekistan had a chance to learn best practices of sustainable city mobility planning.

On 3 September 2019, some 40 representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakh-stan, police, NGOs and representatives of the diplomatic corps participated in an event on inclusive and effective community policing in multi-ethnic societies. The event took place in the framework of the visit to Kazakhstan of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Mi-norities, Lamberto Zannier.

On 4 September, an SMM patrol consisting of six people and two armoured vehicles was conducting an impact site assessment at Akhmatovoi Street in the north-eastern part of Pikuzy (formerly Kominternove, non-government-controlled, 23km north-east of Mariupol)...