News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE PA Special Representative on Border Co-operation visits Serbia-Hungary border
Publishing date: 20 March 2014
COPENHAGEN, 20 March 2014 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Special Representative on Border Co-operation, Ignacio Sanchez Amor (MP, Spain), has completed a study visit to the Serbian-Hungarian border.
OSCE launches National Dialogue project in Ukraine
Publishing date: 20 March 2014
VIENNA, 20 March 2014 – The OSCE today started to deploy a team of 15 international experts to Ukraine as part of a National Dialogue project to identify areas for further OSCE activities to support confidence-building between different parts of Ukrainian society...
OSCE Mission to Skopje trains legal and law enforcement practitioners on criminal justice
Publishing date: 20 March 2014
More than 190 judges, prosecutors, attorneys and police officials will receive practical advanced training on particular concepts of the criminal procedure in 2014. The training, the first session of which takes place on 20 March 2014, is organized by the OSCE Mission to Skopje with the aim of strengthening the professionalism, efficiency and transparency of justice...
OSCE supports expert meeting on treatment of life-sentence prisoners in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 March 2014
An OSCE-supported expert meeting on the rights of persons sentenced to life imprisonment under the new draft Criminal Executive Code of Kazakhstan took place on 20 March 2014 in Almaty...
OSCE/ODIHR opens election observation mission for early presidential election in Ukraine
Publishing date: 20 March 2014
KYIV, 20 March 2014 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened an election observation mission for the 25 May 2014 early presidential election in Ukraine. The mission’s deployment follows an invitation from the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
OSCE parliamentarians to observe Ukraine’s presidential vote; pre-election visit scheduled for next week
Publishing date: 19 March 2014
COPENHAGEN, 19 March 2014 – A delegation led by senior OSCE parliamentarians will observe Ukraine’s presidential election on 25 May and provide leadership for the OSCE's short-term observer mission.
In Sarajevo, OSCE PA President says security in South East Europe still “burning issue”
Publishing date: 19 March 2014
SARAJEVO, 19 March 2014 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ranko Krivokapic has said that security in South East Europe is still a "burning issue," stemming not from the threat of ethnic conflict but from incomplete democratization and organized crime.