News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE co-operation model will build better future, Dutch Foreign Minister tells OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 10 July 2014
VIENNA, 10 July 2014- Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans today stressed his strong belief that the OSCE can lead the way in conflict resolution after showing its worth in the Ukraine crisis...
Kyrgyzstan-based NGO Spravedlivost named winner of 2014 Max van der Stoel Award
Publishing date: 10 July 2014
THE HAGUE, 10 July 2014 – Spravedlivost, a non-governmental organization based in Jalal-Abad in southern Kyrgyzstan, has been named as the 2014 winner of the Max van der Stoel Award, for its outstanding work in improving the position of national minorities in the OSCE area...
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine based on information received until 8 July 2014, 18:00 (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 9 July 2014
The Ukrainian security operation in the east of the country continued. The situation in the central-southern part of the Luhansk region and the central part of the Donetsk region remained volatile. Other parts of the country remained calm...
High Commissioner on National Minorities expresses concern over future of Latin-script schools in Transdniestria
Publishing date: 9 July 2014
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Astrid Thors, on a trip to Chisinau and Tiraspol on 7 and 8 July 2014, expressed her concern that schools teaching in the Latin-script could face closure by the authorities in Tiraspol if an agreement is not reached before the start of the next school year on 1 September...
OSCE/ODIHR opens observation mission for presidential election in Turkey
Publishing date: 9 July 2014
ANKARA, 9 July 2014 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened a limited election observation mission (LEOM) for the 10 August presidential election in Turkey. The mission’s deployment follows an invitation from the Turkish authorities...
Tenth anniversary of Forbes magazine editor’s death grim reminder of impunity in Russia, says OSCE representative
Publishing date: 9 July 2014
VIENNA, 9 July 2014- On the tenth anniversary of the death of Forbes magazine editor Paul Klebnikov the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today called on the government of the Russian Federation to end impunity for crimes committed against journalists...
OSCE and International Civil Aviation Organization assess travel document security in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 9 July 2014
BISHKEK, 9 July 2014 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the OSCE Secretariat (Transnational Threats Department) and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in co-operation with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) facilitated at the request of the Kyrgyz Government the deployment of an assessment mission focussing on security of travel documents and of their issuance process...