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Armed men threatened to shoot SMM monitors in Vesela Hora. The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region, including a sharp increase in the number of explosions compared with the previous reporting period. In Luhansk region the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations compared with the previous reporting period. The Mission followed up on reports of casualties in Donetsk city and Borzhykivka. The SMM observed impact sites in Pikuzy. The Mission continued monitoring the three disengagement areas; it recorded ceasefire violations near Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area. Its access remained restricted there and elsewhere, including again in Novoazovsk near the border with the Russian Federation. The SMM visited one border area not under government control...

Some 30 representatives of Turkmenistan’s law-enforcement bodies and other relevant institutions and ministries participated in a roundtable discussion on the national and regional implementation of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 (2004) on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction on 29 and 30 June 2017 in Ashgabat...

VIENNA, 30 June 2017 – The OSCE website (www.osce.org) is as of today available in all six of the Organization’s official languages – English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, extending the OSCE’s outreach to millions more people across the world...

A two-day workshop on implementing the United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Kazakhstan concluded on 30 June, 2017 in Astana...

The fifth in a series of OSCE-supported five-day training courses on risk profiling at border checkpoints to assist sixteen officers of the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee in countering transnational threats by using risk profiling at border checkpoints concluded in Aktobe, Kazakhstan on 30 June 2017...

While noting that contestants in Bulgaria’s 26 March 2017 early parliamentary elections could campaign freely and that the legal framework is generally conducive to holding democratic elections, the final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) includes among its recommendations the review of suffrage rights and arrangements for voting abroad, and permitting the use of languages other than Bulgarian.

The first in the series of training courses for Public Council members concluded on 30 June 2017 in Dushanbe. The course was jointly organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the international organization Saferworld...