News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Stop radicalization and violent extremism to prevent terrorism, OSCE Secretary General says at security conference
Publishing date: 28 May 2013
Recent terrorist attacks in the OSCE region show that terrorism and conditions that contribute to the spread of terrorism are likely to remain a key challenge for participating States, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said at an international security conference in Budapest on 29 May 2013...
Nobel Laureate John Nash gives public lecture in Kyrgyzstan with OSCE support
Publishing date: 27 May 2013
BISHKEK, 27 May 2013 – A public lecture by the 1994 Nobel Laureate in Economics, John Nash “Ideal Money and the Motivation of Savings and Thrift” took place today in Bishkek with OSCE support...
OSCE Presence helps blind people vote in Albania’s general elections
Publishing date: 27 May 2013
TIRANA, 27 May 2013 – The OSCE Presence in Albania is helping some 2,000 visually impaired people to vote in the 23 June parliamentary elections, by holding training events on the use of assistive voting devices, electoral procedures and access to voting centres. The first course started today in Tirana...
OSCE Mission to Skopje trains police officers on collecting intelligence data on terrorism
Publishing date: 27 May 2013
The OSCE Mission to Skopje in co-operation with the Interior Ministry holds a specialized training course for police officers in Skopje from 27 to 31 May 2013 on collecting operational intelligence data on terrorism...
OSCE Mission to Skopje trains civil society organizations on how to better identify and report hate crimes
Publishing date: 27 May 2013
Some 30 members of civil society organizations participated in a two-day training event on how to improve reporting on hate crimes, which was organized by the OSCE Mission to Skopje and the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Veles on 27 May 2013...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned over prison sentences for defamation in Italy, reiterates her call to decriminalize libel
Publishing date: 27 May 2013
VIENNA, 27 May 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today about prison sentences handed down to three journalists in Italy for libel...
Latest round of talks in Transdniestrian settlement process concluded in Odesa with agreement on confidence-building measure
Publishing date: 24 May 2013
ODESA, Ukraine, 24 May 2013- The latest round of negotiations in the Transdniestrian settlement process concluded today in the Ukrainian city of Odesa with an agreement on a further confidence-building measure...