News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator visits Ukraine's Zaporizhya region to assess projects
Publishing date: 21 August 2008
ZAPORIZHYA, Ukraine, 21 August 2008- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Ambassador Lubomir Kopaj, is visiting Zaporizhya region this week to evaluate the effectiveness of existing OSCE projects and discuss developing new ones...
OSCE Office supports training on conflict prevention in Kyrgyz penitentiary facilities
Publishing date: 21 August 2008
JALAL ABAD, Kyrgyzstan, 21 August 2008- Methods of conflict prevention in detention facilities was the focus of a training course that ended in Jalal Abad today...
OSCE Chairman welcomes OSCE States' decision for up to 100 monitors to Georgia
Publishing date: 19 August 2008
BRUSSELS, 19 August 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, issued the following statement on the OSCE Permanent Council's decision to increase the number of monitors to the Mission to Georgia by up to 100...
OSCE States agree up to 100 monitors to Georgia
Publishing date: 19 August 2008
VIENNA, 19 August 2008- The 56 OSCE participating States agreed to increase the number of OSCE monitors in the Mission to Georgia to 100 at a special meeting of the Permanent Council in Vienna today...
OSCE Secretary General visits Russia's North Ossetia
Publishing date: 17 August 2008
VIENNA, 18 August 2008- At the request of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut was in Vladikavkaz on Saturday and Sunday to meet refugees from South Ossetia and assess the humanitarian situation first-hand...
OSCE Special Envoy says situation in Georgia still "fragile", additional OSCE monitors needed
Publishing date: 14 August 2008
VIENNA, 14 August 2008- The situation in and around the South Ossetia conflict area remains "fragile" and up to 100 additional OSCE monitors are needed, the Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Heikki Talvitie, said in Vienna today...
Albania finalizes computerization of civil status data, starts issuing printed civil status certificates
Publishing date: 14 August 2008
TIRANA, 14 August 2008- The Albanian Interior Ministry, with support from the OSCE Presence, will begin issuing printed civil status certificates at the Civil Status Offices in Tirana, and local government units in Kamez and Paskuqan...