News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media urges Interpol to carefully consider arrest warrant requests from Turkey
Publishing date: 23 August 2017
VIENNA, 23 August 2017- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir today urged Secretary General of Interpol Jürgen Stock that the international police organization carefully review recent international arrest warrants requested by Turkey...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Kurz welcomes ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine ahead of school year’s start
Publishing date: 23 August 2017
VIENNA, 23 August 2017 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz today welcomed an agreement reached by the Trilateral Contact Group and the representatives of certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions to fully recommit to a permanent ceasefire on the occasion of the beginning of the school year, from midnight on 25 August 2017...
Press Statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sajdik after meeting of Trilateral Contact Group
Publishing date: 23 August 2017
MINSK, 23 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...
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 22 August 2017
Publishing date: 23 August 2017
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...
Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 21 August 2017
Publishing date: 22 August 2017
The SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions compared with the previous 24 hours. The Mission followed up on a report of a civilian casualty in Yasynuvata. The SMM continued monitoring the disengagement areas and recorded ceasefire violations near the Zolote disengagement area. Its access remained restricted in the disengagement areas and elsewhere, including in Novolaspa and Kreminets.* The SMM observed unexploded ordnance near Zolote. The Mission continued to facilitate and monitor repairs and maintenance to a power plant in Shchastia. The Mission visited three border areas not under government control...
OSCE training course in Skopje focuses on detecting forged travel documents
Publishing date: 22 August 2017
Increasing operational awareness to detect forged documents and imposters is the aim of a three-day advanced training course for border police officers organized by the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department with support from the OSCE Mission to Skopje, which started at the Police Training Centre in Idrizovo on 22 August 2017...
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan and OSCE conduct awareness raising campaign on drug prevention dedicated to Year of Youth in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 22 August 2017
Over the last nine years, as part of the project on “Implementation of precautionary and preventive anti-drug events”, the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe together with Tajikistan’s law enforcement agencies has carried out an awareness raising campaign on drug prevention in all the regions and districts of Tajikistan...