News and press releases

TIRANA, 16 July 2014- Bledar Çuçi, the Minister of State for Local Issues, who also serves as Albania’s National Co-ordinator on Anti-corruption, and the OSCE Presence in Albania today in Tirana presented the draft Anti-corruption Action Plan 2014-2017. The Action Plan was put together with the support and co-operation of the OSCE Presence in Albania...

Greater efforts to ensure a separation between party and state activities, as well as to investigate allegations of intimidation were among the recommendations contained in the final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the presidential and early parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

VIENNA, 16 July 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today regretted the ruling by the appeals court in Belgrade against the media outlet B92 for defamation in connection with reporting involving a former Serbian official...

The Trilateral Contact Group of senior representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the OSCE met in Kiev on July 15, 2014.

Tension remained in parts of Donbas. The situation was calm elsewhere across the country. In Kharkiv, on the night of 12-13 July, the monument of independence on the Constitution Square was vandalized with red paint by unknown perpetrators, and later during the day cleaned up by city employees. Police officers were working on site in the morning. This is the fourth incident of this kind in Kharkiv.

KYIV, 15 July 2014 – Electoral reform in Ukraine and follow-up to recommendations made in the final report of the election observation mission sent by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) for the 2014 early presidential election were the focus of a roundtable event in Kyiv today...

ASHGABAT, 15 July 2014 – Five senior officials from the Defence Ministry of Turkmenistan discussed practices of safe storage of small arms and light weapons and conventional ammunition during an OSCE-supported study visit to Moldova that concluded in Chisinau today...