News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission helps improve reintegration of repatriated persons in Kosovo
Publishing date: 14 February 2011
Through a series of five regional roundtable meetings, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo is facilitating central-local level dialogue aimed at improving the reintegration of repatriated persons in Kosovo.
OSCE Centre supports young professionals from Central Asian environmental NGOs
Publishing date: 12 February 2011
ALMATY, 12 February 2011- Some 45 young leaders representing environmental non-governmental organizations from Central Asia are taking part in the Youth Environmental Forum that started in Almaty today with the support of the OSCE Centre...
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs issue statement
Publishing date: 11 February 2011
VIENNA, 11 February 2011 – The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, released the following statement today...
OSCE media freedom representative strongly condemns explosion at Bulgarian newspaper offices, urges thorough and swift investigation
Publishing date: 11 February 2011
VIENNA, 11 February 2011– Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today strongly condemned the bomb explosion outside the offices of the Galeria weekly in Sofia...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan calls for attackers of leading politician and journalist to be brought to justice
Publishing date: 11 February 2011
DUSHANBE, 11 February 2011 – The Head of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, Ambassador Ivar Vikki, today condemned the violent attack on Hikmatullo Saifullozoda, member of the Political Council of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and editor-in-chief of its newspaper, and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice...
OSCE field operations in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan promote co-operation among border agencies
Publishing date: 11 February 2011
BISHKEK, 11 February 2011- A five-day OSCE workshop that fostered cross-border co-operation between the Kyrgyzstan’s and Tajikistan’s border troops concluded in Bishkek today...
OSCE provides equipment to improve national passport system in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 10 February 2011
TASHKENT, 10 February 2011 – In a ceremony held in Tashkent today the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan handed over to the representatives of Uzbekistan’s Interior and Foreign Ministries equipment to support the government's efforts to improve the national passport system and introduce biometric identity and travel documents...