News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media meets with Chargé d'Affaires of the Permanent Mission of Greece to the OSCE
Publishing date: 7 May 2021
On 5 May, Teresa Ribeiro, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), met with Chargé d'Affaires Georgios Daskalopoulos, to discuss media freedom developments and challenges in Greece.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro works with NGOs to improve accessibility on polling day
Publishing date: 7 May 2021
Representative from the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, the Association of Youth with Disabilities and the Union of the Blind of Montenegro worked together to produce guidelines for municipal electoral commissions on improving accessibility of polling stations.
OSCE SMM Spot Report 13/2021: Emergency landing of long-range unmanned aerial vehicle due to dual GPS signal interference
Publishing date: 6 May 2021
On 6 May, the SMM was conducting an announced SMM long-range unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight. The UAV had taken off from its base in government-controlled Stepanivka (54km north of Donetsk) at 12:30 and had immediately experienced dual GPS signal interference, assessed as caused by jamming, which then had occurred at intervals during the flight. At 16:01, while flying over areas near Kolosky (non-government-controlled, 46km south-east of Donetsk), the UAV had again experienced dual GPS signal interference, assessed as caused by jamming, which continued uninterrupted for the remainder of the flight...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 103/2021 issued on 6 May 2021
Publishing date: 6 May 2021
Summary In Donetsk region, the SMM recorded 618 ceasefire violations, including 266 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 217 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, the Mission recorded 18 ceasefire violations, including nine explosions. In the previous reporting
Economic connectivity perspectives and operationalization of Euro-Asian transport corridors focus of OSCE and UNECE discussions
Publishing date: 6 May 2021
Economic connectivity perspectives and the operationalization of Euro-Asian inland transport links (EATL) were the focus of two rounds of virtual consultations held by the OSCE and the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on 25 March 2021 and 6 May 2021...
Social re-use of confiscated assets from organized crime focus of OSCE-supported workshop in Serbia
Publishing date: 6 May 2021
On 5 May 2021, the Serbian Directorate for the Administration of Seized Assets, eight local civil society organizations (CSOs) and OSCE experts discussed opportunities and modalities to socially re-use assets confiscated from organized crime...
Statement by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group
Publishing date: 5 May 2021
Moscow/Paris/Washington, 5 May 2021- The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stephane Visconti of France, and Andrew Schofer of the United States of America) released the following statement today: