News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairperson says presence of Police Advisory Group in Kyrgyzstan will facilitate strengthening trust, stability and order in country
Publishing date: 22 July 2010
ASTANA, 22 July 2010- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan's Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, praised the decision taken today in Vienna by the OSCE Permanent Council to deploy a Police Advisory Group to Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE Centre supports crime prevention with focus on elderly citizens
Publishing date: 22 July 2010
BISHKEK, 22 July 2010- Ensuring public safety through local crime prevention centers with a special focus on the elderly was a topic of a seminar which ended in Bishkek today...
OSCE Permanent Council approves deployment 'without delay' of police advisors to Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 22 July 2010
VIENNA, 22 July 2010- The 56 OSCE participating States agreed the deployment of police advisors to Kyrgyzstan in a decision taken by the Permanent Council in Vienna today...
CIS Executive Secretary addresses OSCE Permanent Council, stresses co-operation in addressing new security challenges, observing elections
Publishing date: 22 July 2010
VIENNA, 22 July 2010- Addressing the OSCE Permanent Council today, the Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States Sergey Lebedev, emphasized the need to develop co-operation between international organizations to ensure stability...
OSCE Centre in Astana conducts training seminar on confidence- and security- building measures
Publishing date: 21 July 2010
ALMATY, 21 July 2010- A three-day regional training seminar for military officers on the practical implementation of the Vienna Document 1999 on confidence- and security-building measures began in Almaty today...
OSCE rights office, Holocaust education task force formalize co-operation on combating anti-Semitism
Publishing date: 21 July 2010
JERUSALEM, 21 July 2010- The Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Janez Lenarcic, today formalized the partnership with the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research...
OSCE Office supports public monitoring of conditions in Armenian Defence Ministry's disciplinary cells and penal battalion
Publishing date: 20 July 2010
YEREVAN, 20 July 2010- The results of an OSCE-supported study on the conditions for persons deprived of their liberty in disciplinary cells and the penal battalion of the Armenian Defence Ministry were the focus of a discussion organized today...