News and press releases

The SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region compared with the previous 24 hours. In Dovhe, the Mission heard small-arms fire assessed as aimed at its unmanned aerial vehicle. The SMM observed damage to civilian properties from shelling in residential areas in Dokuchaievsk. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske; it recorded ceasefire violations inside the Petrivske disengagement area. Its access remained restricted in the disengagement areas and elsewhere, including at a heavy weapons holding area and a permanent storage site in non-government-controlled areas.* The SMM saw weapons in violation of withdrawal lines on both sides of the contact line. It facilitated and monitored repairs and maintenance of essential infrastructure in Shchastia and Zolote-4, and near Krasnyi Lyman, Artema and Troitske. The SMM visited four border areas not under government control.

SARAJEVO, 28 November 2017- The 10th Annual Review Conference on Compliance with OSCE and UN Security Commitments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, gathering over 50 local and regional security experts and representatives of government institutions, international organizations and the civil society, concluded today, at Jahorina mountain...

PODGORICA, 28 November 2017- A two-day training course for 35 civil law judges on the implementation of international legal assistance in civil matters was organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the country’s Judiciary Training Centre was held on 27 and 28 November 2017 in Podgorica...

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in co-operation with the parliament’s Department of Human Resources, organized a training course on managing change for parliamentary services on 27 and 28 November in Podgorica...

The importance of involving men alongside women to move forward in achieving gender equality was the focus of an OSCE-organized MenEngage expert meeting on 24 November 2017 in Vienna.

The OSCE Guidebook on Intelligence-Led Policing (ILP) was promoted in Astana, Kazakhstan, during a regional event which brought together some 30 representatives of the public security sector from Central Asian countries on 28 November 2017...

VIENNA, 28 November 2017- At a meeting of the 5+2 talks on the Transdniestrian Settlement Process in Vienna, political representatives from Chisinau and Tiraspol confirmed progress on several of the eight issues previously identified by the Sides, and made a commitment to finalize the remaining issues at the beginning of next year...