News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre in Astana hosts meeting on trade barriers and transport security
Publishing date: 11 August 2009
ASTANA, 11 August 2009- Experts and officials discussed gaps and needs in trade and transport policy and perspectives for transit transport development in the region during an OSCE-supported meeting that ended in Astana today...
OSCE Centre supports courses to train trainers on dangers of HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, domestic violence in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 11 August 2009
ASHGABAT, 11 August 2009- An OSCE Centre-supported course to teach young people to educate their peers about the dangers of HIV/AIDS and drugs as well as domestic violence started today in the Mary region...
OSCE staff member dies in fatal climbing accident
Publishing date: 10 August 2009
DUSHANBE, 10 August 2009- A staff member of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, Mr. Czeslaw Bielawski, 49, died from injuries in a fatal climbing (rappelling) accident on Sunday, 9 August at 17.15 hrs...
OSCE Office co-organizes third annual Preparatory Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 7 August 2009
DUSHANBE, 7 August 2009- A meeting co-organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan to support Tajik government and civil society representatives ahead of the OSCE's annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting ended in Dushanbe today...
OSCE Centre supports young Turkmenistan athletes with disabilities
Publishing date: 6 August 2009
ASHGABAT, 6 August 2009- Promoting health, education and better integration into society were the focus of a summer camp that ended today in the Gokdere mountains near Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat...
A year after conflict, Georgia still needs stability, OSCE Chairperson says
Publishing date: 6 August 2009
ATHENS, 6 August 2009- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, said today she was concerned about tensions in the areas affected by the August 2008 conflict in Georgia and called on all sides to refrain from actions...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned over journalist's sentence in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 5 August 2009
VIENNA, 5 August 2009- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, urged Uzbekistan's authorities today to review the case of journalist Dilmurod Saidov (pen name Saiid), who was sentenced to 12-and-a-half years in prison...