News and press releases

A two-day OSCE-supported training seminar on data journalism for some 15 journalists across the country concluded on 25 August in Almaty, Kazakhstan...

An OSCE-supported regional workshop on trade facilitation and border protection concluded on 25 August 2017 in Astana. Some 60 officials of Kazakhstan’s Finance Ministry and trade representatives from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan reviewed the challenges and

On 24 August 2017 at 06:47 (Moscow time), the sixty-sixth Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 28 vehicles were checked by the Russian Federation border guards and customs services prior to crossing into Ukraine. All of the 28 vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 16:18 on 24 August...

MINSK, 24 August 2017 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its working groups in Minsk on 23 August 2017...

The OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek and the National Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan organized a summer camp for 20 affected by the Dacha-Suu plane crash in the village of Kara Oi, in the northern Issyk Kyl region from 17 to 20 August 2017...

KYIV, 23 August 2017 – The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) welcomes the recommitment to ceasefire by the Trilateral Contact Group and other signatories of the Minsk agreements, said Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, the Chief Monitor of the SMM, in a statement today...

The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region compared with the previous reporting period. The Mission followed up on reports of civilian casualties, including a boy who was critically injured when an unexploded ordnance exploded in Teple and two boys who suffered burns following a gunpowder explosion in Novoaidar. The SMM continued monitoring the disengagement areas and recorded a ceasefire violation inside the Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement area. Its access remained restricted in the disengagement areas and elsewhere, including in Novoazovsk and Verkhnoshyrokivske.* The Mission observed weapons in violation of withdrawal lines on both sides of the contact line. The SMM continued to facilitate and monitor repairs and maintenance to infrastructure in Shchastia, Artema, Zolote and Pivdenne. The Mission monitored the situation along the administrative boundary line between Kherson and Crimea...