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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 8/2022 issued on 14 January 2022
Publishing date: 14 January 2022
Summary In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 175 ceasefire violations, including 96 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 187 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 151 ceasefire violations, including 131 explosions. In the previous reporting
OSCE Media Freedom Representative: “Moldovan public service broadcaster and media regulatory authorities should be free from political interference”
Publishing date: 14 January 2022
VIENNA, 14 January 2022 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Teresa Ribeiro, today presented a legal analysis of the Law on Amendments of the Code of Audiovisual Media Services of the Republic of Moldova, no. 174/2018, adopted on 4 November 2021. The amendments lead to increased parliamentary control over the public service broadcaster TeleRadio-Moldova (TRM) and the public authority regulating the public and private broadcast media, the Audiovisual Council.
OSCE Chairman-in-Office Zbigniew Rau presents Poland’s 2022 priorities to Permanent Council
Publishing date: 13 January 2022
VIENNA, 13 January 2022 – Poland’s Chairmanship of the OSCE in 2022 intends to promote and advance the rational, smart and flexible use of the OSCE’s unique tools and negotiation formats. “We need to reinvigorate the debate about European security. Let us start a process that will help us to uphold the Helsinki principles in full conformity with international law,” OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Zbigniew Rau said in his address to the Permanent Council in Vienna today.
Hacking sites and blocking content of Portuguese media group is clear violation of freedom of expression, says OSCE Media Freedom Representative
Publishing date: 13 January 2022
VIENNA, 13 January 2022 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, today expressed concern about the recent hacking and illegal removal of websites belonging to media outlets of Portugal’s leading media group Grupo Impresa.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 7/2022 issued on 13 January 2022
Publishing date: 13 January 2022
Summary In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 187 ceasefire violations, including 94 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 197 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 148 ceasefire violations, including 95 explosions, 113 of which were assessed
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 6/2022 issued on 12 January 2022
Publishing date: 12 January 2022
Summary In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 197 ceasefire violations, including 26 explosions, 173 of which were assessed as a live-fire training exercise outside the security zone. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 133 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, the Mission
Statement by the OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office on the situation along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border
Publishing date: 12 January 2022
VIENNA, 12 January 2022 – The Polish OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office expresses deep concern about renewed clashes along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border and that this violence resulted in casualties.