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OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Linde concludes visit to North Macedonia

Publishing date: 22 June 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 22 June 2021 — OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Ann Linde concluded a visit to North Macedonia. She commended the country’s reform-oriented agenda, which focuses on fighting organized crime and corruption, promoting media freedom and fostering social cohesion...

Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 22 June 2021

Publishing date: 22 June 2021
Content type: Weekly report
Where we are: OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk (discontinued)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons increased at both BCPs compared to the previous week...

OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan supports building development and entrepreneurship capacities of young women-managers

Publishing date: 22 June 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Gender equality
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (the PCUz) organized a two-week training course from 7 to 18 June 2021 in Tashkent. Some 100 junior and mid-level female entrepreneurs from Uzbekistan attended.

OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 142/2021 issued on 21 June 2021

Publishing date: 21 June 2021
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary In Donetsk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 June, the SMM recorded 129 ceasefire violations, including seven explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 41 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, between the evenings of 18 and 20 June, the Mission

OSCE supports explosive ordnance disposal course for specialists of Regional Explosive Hazards Training Centre of Tajikistan’s Defence Ministry

Publishing date: 21 June 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
A one-month regional Explosive Ordnance Disposal course (level 2) concluded at the Regional Explosive Hazards Training Centre in Chimteppa on 18 June 2021.

Albania enhances strategic use of open source intelligence for financial investigations through OSCE workshop

Publishing date: 21 June 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
Criminal justice professionals in Albania took part in an OSCE-organized national workshop from 14 to 18 June 2021 to enhance their capacities to develop intelligence through open-source internet research.

Armenia’s early parliamentary elections were competitive and well run, but polarized and marred by aggressive rhetoric, international observers say

Publishing date: 21 June 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
YEREVAN, 21 June 2021 –Armenia’s early parliamentary elections were competitive and well-managed within a short time frame. However, they were characterized by intense polarization and marred by increasingly inflammatory language from key contestants, as well as by the sidelining of women throughout the campaign, international observers said in a statement today...