News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Afghan and Tajik border officers complete OSCE, UNDP border security training
Publishing date: 25 July 2013
DUSHANBE, 25 July 2013 – A total of 24 Afghan and Tajik border officers completed today a 10-day training course on international border management standards and methods...
Unity to remain at all times: OSCE Mission commemorates 50th anniversary of the Skopje earthquake
Publishing date: 25 July 2013
SKOPJE, 26 July 2013 – Only twenty seconds altered the future of the city: on this day in 1963, Skopje was hit by a massive earthquake, killing more than a thousand people and destroying or damaging eighty percent of all buildings. Today, as the OSCE Mission to Skopje commemorates the 50th anniversary of the disaster, the Acting Head of Mission, Ambassador Marianne Berecz, stressed that the solidarity demonstrated at that difficult time should serve as an inspiration for the future...
OSCE media freedom representative alarmed by court decision in Skopje to continue detention of journalist
Publishing date: 25 July 2013
VIENNA, 25 July 2013 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today condemned the continued pre-trial detention of investigative journalist, Tomislav Kezarovski in Skopje...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro Head condemns violent disruption of pride parade in Budva as threat to freedom of assembly
Publishing date: 24 July 2013
PODGORICA, 24 July 2013 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro Ljubomir Kopaj said today’s attacks on participants of the pride parade in Budva represent a threat to the freedom of peaceful assembly...
OSCE Mission to Moldova continues removal of ionized radiation sources from Transdniestria
Publishing date: 24 July 2013
CHISINAU, 24 July 2013 – Today the OSCE Mission to Moldova completed the removal of more than 700 ionized radiation sources from a hospital and factories in Transdniestria...
Investigating and prosecuting human trafficking in focus of OSCE training in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 24 July 2013
ASHGABAT, 24 July 2013 – Investigating and prosecuting human trafficking crimes was in focus of an OSCE-organized training course that concluded in Ashgabat today...
OSCE Secretary General visits Paris
Publishing date: 23 July 2013
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier visited Paris for consultations on 23 July 2013. He met French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and other senior French officials to discuss challenges in the OSCE region...