News and press releases

The 2020 parliamentary elections in Montenegro were competitive, and took place in an environment highly polarized over issues of church and national identity. Contestants were able to convey their messages but the ruling party gained an undue advantage through misuse of office and state resources,

An OSCE-supported webinar on identifying and combatting gender-based violence organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan concluded on 11 December 2020...

The OSCE Presence in Albania and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands jointly organized a workshop on 11 December 2020 in Tirana. The event focused on the current application of the Law on Decriminalization in view of the upcoming parliamentary elections on 25 April 2021...

Twenty-seven officers and managers from different border security and law enforcement agencies from OSCE’s participating States completed the first module of the one-year Border Security and Management for Senior Leadership course (BSMSL) on 11 December 2020. Due to the COVID-29 pandemic and the travel restrictions, the traditional face-to-face phase of the first module was held via video teleconferencing.

With the support of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, from June to December 2020, six staff of Montenegro’s parliament acquired the knowledge and tools to organize and facilitate workshops on a range of skills for their colleagues within parliament...

Promoting the social re-use of assets confiscated from criminal activity was the focus of two online workshops for Serbian and North Macedonian civil society organizations, law enforcement practitioners, asset management agencies and prosecutions offices, which were held on 7 and 10 December 2020. More than 30 participants attended. The workshops are part of a series of national workshops the OSCE is organizing for five South-Eastern European countries to promote the social re-use of assets as an efficient tool in preventing and fighting against organized crime and corruption...

Summary The SMM recorded two ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 16 ceasefire violations in the region. The Mission recorded five ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 45 ceasefire violations in the