News and press releases

Local governments using innovative ways to deliver services received the “Best Practices in Local Government in Montenegro 2012” awards in a ceremony held by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Union of Municipalities in Podgorica on 21 December 2012...

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore, extended his condolences to the families of those killed in the crash of a military plane near Shymkent in southern Kazakhstan on 25 December 2012...

SKOPJE, 25 December 2012 – The Acting Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Natalya Drozd, called today on all stakeholders, including parliamentarians, their respective political parties, and the public at large to refrain from all violence and instead to utilize the legal means available in the country for a peaceful resolution of current political disagreements...

SHEVCHENKOVE, Ukraine, 21 December 2012- A train carrying 380 tonnes of a toxic rocket fuel component, which had been stored in deteriorating containers, left Ukraine today for Russia as part of a project supported by the OSCE...

The parliamentary elections in Georgia on 1 October marked an important step in consolidating the conduct of democratic elections in line with OSCE commitments, although certain key issues remain to be addressed, concludes the final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...

BISHKEK, 21 December 2012 – The implementation of the new law on peaceful assemblies in Kyrgyzstan was the focus of an OSCE-supported discussion that took place in Bishkek today...

ASHGABAT, 21 December 2012 – Sixty-five students from the law faculty at the Magtymguly Turkmen State University attended an OSCE-organized course on comparative criminal law that concluded in Ashgabat today...