News and press releases

The SMM’s operations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions remained restricted following the fatal incident of 23 April near Pryshyb; these restrictions continued to limit the Mission’s observations. In both Donetsk and Luhansk regions the Mission recorded fewer ceasefire violations and explosions compared with the previous reporting period. It followed up on reports of civilian casualties in Avdiivka, Donetsk city and Pikuzy.

CHISINAU, 25 May 2017 – The Special Representative of the Austrian OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian Settlement Process, Ambassador Wolf Dietrich Heim, today concluded his fourth visit to the region where he met chief negotiators of the sides in Chisinau and Tiraspol...

This report is for the general public and the media. SUMMARY On 25 May 2017 at 06:48 (Moscow time), the sixty-third [1] Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 16 vehicles were checked by the Russian border guards and customs services prior to them crossing

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo and Kosovo Police concluded on 24 May 2017 in Prishtinë/Priština a two-day workshop on the use of the Internet and social media to counter violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism for the representatives of the police, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, religious groups, journalists and university students...

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Penal Reform International (PRI) provided information about tools to promote and implement the revised UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson

The importance of co-operation to prevent military incidents during peacetime was the topic of the session of the Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC), currently under Russia’s Chairmanship, on 24 May 2017. The discussion focused on the Russian Federation’s national experience in the implementation of bilateral agreements on preventing incidents on and over the high seas...

Prosecutors from nine OSCE participating States and officials from the OSCE Presence in Albania and the OSCE Mission to Skopje took part in a train-the-trainers event on countering hate crime organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw from 23 to 25