News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairperson pledges Lithuania’s support for Ireland’s 2012 Chairmanship
Publishing date: 30 December 2011
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, congratulated his successor as OSCE Chairperson, Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore today on Ireland taking over the OSCE Chairmanship from 1 January 2012...
Ireland to draw on experience to promote conflict resolution, digital media freedom in 2012 as new OSCE Chair
Publishing date: 30 December 2011
DUBLIN, 1 January 2012 – Ireland’s 2012 Chair of the OSCE will seek to address protracted conflicts, promote Internet freedom and strengthen co-operation between the 56 OSCE participating States, said the new Chairperson-in-Office, Irish Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, today...
OSCE Chairperson welcomes exchange of detainees by Tbilisi and Tshkinvali
Publishing date: 30 December 2011
VILNIUS, 30 December 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed the exchange of detainees by the authorities in Tbilisi and Tskhinvali today...
OSCE Chairperson welcomes agreement on new government in BiH
Publishing date: 29 December 2011
VILNIUS, 29 December 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed today the agreement by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s politicians to form a new state government...
OSCE Secretary General discusses tackling organized crime and drugs trafficking with UNODC
Publishing date: 28 December 2011
Meeting with the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, on 22 December 2011 in Vienna, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier discussed the prospects for closer co-operation to tackle organized crime and drugs trafficking...
OSCE media freedom representative expresses concern over newly-adopted broadcasting law in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 28 December 2011
VIENNA, 28 December 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern about a controversial law on television and radio broadcasting adopted today by Kazakhstan’s upper chamber of Parliament...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine donates IT equipment to help Interior Ministry to combat cybercrime, human trafficking
Publishing date: 27 December 2011
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) handed over computers, monitors and docking stations to the country’s Interior Ministry on 27 December 2011...