News and press releases

VIENNA, 28 August 2013 – The 1,000th observation flight under the Open Skies Treaty is a perfect illustration of how openness and transparency can build confidence between nations, said Ambassador Miklós Boros of Hungary, current Chair of the Open Skies Consultative Commission, today. Thirty-four OSCE participating States are parties to the Treaty that allows them to conduct peaceful unarmed aerial observations over each other’s territory...

DUSHANBE, 27 August 2013 – The OSCE Office in Tajikistan held the last round of public hearings on the final draft of the Environmental Code for Tajikistan.The final draft was developed and presented to government and civil society representatives by the working group on the development of the National Environmental Code, which consisted of Tajik and international experts. The document incorporated the comments received during other sessions of public hearings held in all the regions of Tajikistan in June 2013...

An OSCE-supported seminar on the role of the police in the observance and protection of human rights, led by the experts of the Interior Ministry Police Academy, ended today at the Ministry’s facility in Issy-Kul province...

The OSCE Office in Yerevan, in co-operation with Armenian Emergency Situations Ministry and the Global Fire Monitoring Centre, organized a roundtable discussion on improvements in fire management, including national legislative and institutional frameworks and a training on international standards on 20-22 August 2013, in Yerevan and Aghveran...

DUSHANBE, 23 August 2013 – An OSCE-facilitated roundtable meeting on strengthening food safety control and upgrading preparation for the implementation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) in Tajikistan, was completed today in Dushanbe...

Ahead of Tajikistan’s presidential election campaign, the start of which will be announced at a special joint session of Parliament on 30 August, the OSCE Office in Tajikistan brought young politicians from Dushanbe, representing the ruling coalition and opposition parties, together with local authorities and young activists at meetings on 15 August 2013 in Kurgan-Tyube, the administrative centre of Khatlon region...

BAKU, 23 August 2013 – The OSCE Office in Baku, in co-operation with the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan and the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan, held today in Baku the first in a series of sessions on the importance of non-interference in election processes in the run-up to the Presidential elections on 9 October 2013...