News and press releases

WARSAW/VIENNA, 30 June – OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Poland, Zbigniew Rau and OSCE Secretary General, Helga Maria Schmid, have announced that the OSCE has initiated steps to close the office of the Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine.

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine helped the National Agency of Ukraine for Civil Service to develop Methodology Recommendations on Conflict Management in State Institutions and another one elaborated for Local Self-Governance Bodies. On 20 June 2022, the two documents were approved by the Order of the Head of the Agency and are now distributed among authorities at all levels.

VIENNA, 29 June 2022 – The Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC), the OSCE’s main event for enhancing dialogue on regional security challenges, took place on 28 and 29 June 2022.

To mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe supported Tajikistan’s Drug Control Agency (Agency) in organizing awareness-raising campaign from 17 to 25 June in all regions of Tajikistan.

Election experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented the final report and recommendations of the observation mission to the 17 and 31 October 2021 local elections in North Macedonia during a visit to Skopje from 20 to 23 June. The ODIHR experts met

VIENNA, 28 June 2022 – Integrating women and youth to be part of solutions to challenges in times of crisis was at the centre of the OSCE Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation Group meeting that took place in Vienna today.

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) today presented, in Sarajevo, the report A Race Against Time: Successes and Challenges in the Implementation of the National War Crimes Processing Strategy of BiH.