News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
21st IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 20 March 2012
ERGNETI, 20 March 2012- The 21st meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Ergneti today. The meeting was co-facilitated by the EU Monitoring Mission and the OSCE...
OSCE Secretary General visits BiH, welcomes new government’s priorities
Publishing date: 20 March 2012
SARAJEVO, 20 March 2012 – The OSCE Secretary General, Lamberto Zannier, today concluded his visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he met the new state government to discuss their priorities in the light of the contribution offered by the OSCE Mission...
OSCE Centre helps train civil society in Turkmenistan in project management
Publishing date: 20 March 2012
ASHGABAT, 20 March 2012 – An OSCE-supported training course on project management for more than thirty members of Turkmenistan civil society concluded in Ashgabat today...
OSCE PA welcomes election of Moldovan president
Publishing date: 20 March 2012
COPENHAGEN, 16 March 2012 – OSCE PA President Petros Efthymiou today applauded the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova for electing a national president after a more than two and half year political stalemate in Chisinau...
ODIHR Director encourages Kyrgyzstan’s authorities to further improve the conduct of elections to consolidate democratic development
Publishing date: 20 March 2012
BISHKEK, 20 March 2012– During a visit to Bishkek today on Tuesday, Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), encouraged Kyrgyzstan’s authorities to consolidate the country’s democratic achievements and further improve its framework for the holding of democratic elections...
OSCE Mission to Moldova supports discussion on Gagauz minority’s language rights
Publishing date: 19 March 2012
A set of recommendations on how to ensure the language rights of the Gagauz minority of Moldova was presented on 29 March 2012 at an OSCE-hosted roundtable meeting in Chisinau...
President Efthymiou calls for halting of death penalty in Belarus
Publishing date: 16 March 2012
COPENHAGEN, 16 March 2012 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Petros Efthymiou called today for authorities in Minsk to halt its use of the death penalty after reports that President Alexander Lukashenko has decided to go forward with the use of the death penalty in the cases of two men convicted for the April 2011 Minsk metro bombing...