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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports training on basic business skills for rural women in Aral Sea region of Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 9 December 2021
A three-day training course on basic business skills, organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, concluded on 27 November 2021 in Aralsk city in the Kyzylorda province of Kazakhstan. Some 15 rural women from the Aral Sea region attended the event.
OSCE promotes human rights standards during criminal proceedings and investigations
Publishing date: 9 December 2021
An OSCE-organized online course for law students on promoting international human rights standards in criminal proceedings and investigations took place in Ashgabat from 6 to 10 December 2021.
Strengthening youth crime and drug use prevention through OSCE-organized workshop
Publishing date: 9 December 2021
On 9 December, the Transnational Threats Department and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities in co-operation with the OSCE Academy in Bishkek organized a national workshop on strengthening youth crime and drug use prevention in Bishkek.
Press Statement of Special Representative Kinnunen after the regular Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 8 December 2021
Publishing date: 9 December 2021
KYIV, 8 December 2021 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Mikko Kinnunen, made the following statement to the press after the regular meetings of the TCG and its Working Groups held through video conferencing:
OSCE SMM Spot Report 37/2021: Armed formations denied the SMM’s passage near Khreshchatytske, Donetsk region
Publishing date: 8 December 2021
At 12:29 on 8 December, at a checkpoint about 200m west of Khreshchatytske (formerly Krasnoarmiiske, non-government-controlled, 86km south of Donetsk) in southern Donetsk region, a visibly armed member of the armed formations denied passage to an SMM patrol with one of the Deputy Chief Monitors on board...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 288/2021 issued on 8 December 2021
Publishing date: 8 December 2021
Summary In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 145 ceasefire violations, including 40 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 442 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 51 ceasefire violations, including 21 explosions. In the previous reporting
Press Communiqué of the Co-Chairs of the Geneva International Discussions
Publishing date: 8 December 2021
GENEVA, 8 December 2021- The 55th round of the Geneva International Discussions (GID) took place in the Palais des Nations on 7 and 8 December 2021, with requisite COVID-19 pandemic mitigation measures in place. As mandated by the six-point agreement of 2008, the GID process continues to serve as the primary venue in which the consequences of conflict are addressed and other important issues are discussed.