News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine based on information received until 2 July 2014, 18:00 (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 3 July 2014
Tensions remained in parts of Donbas. The situation was calm elsewhere across the country...
Acting Head of OSCE Mission to BiH hopeful elections in Mostar can still happen in 2014, encourages authorities to end deadlock
Publishing date: 3 July 2014
SARAJEVO, 3 July 2014 – The Acting Head of OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Nina Suomalainen today expressed her support for all the efforts aimed at enabling elections in the city of Mostar to be held in parallel with the general elections due in October 2014...
OSCE Office in Yerevan launches call for proposals for civic initiatives on environment and security
Publishing date: 3 July 2014
YEREVAN, 3 July 2014 – The OSCE Office in Yerevan announced today a call for civil society organizations to submit project concepts aimed at addressing environment and security challenges under the Civic Action for Security and Environment (CASE) small grants programme...
Human rights violations root causes of instability, UN High Commissioner Navi Pillay tells OSCE
Publishing date: 3 July 2014
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Navi Pillay addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on 3 July 2014 to mark the deeper co-operation between her office and OSCE...
Kyrgyzstan removed from FATF non-co-operative countries list, with OSCE assistance
Publishing date: 3 July 2014
Kyrgyzstan has been removed from the ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and will no longer be subject to the FATF’s monitoring process under its ongoing global process of compliance with requirements on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). This was announced at the third FATF Plenary meeting held from 25 to 27 June 2014 in Paris. The OSCE Centre in Bishkek contributed to this through providing technical assistance to Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE trains officials from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan on conflict prevention
Publishing date: 3 July 2014
DUSHANBE, 3 July 2014 – Today the OSCE Office in Tajikistan jointly with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and in close co-operation with the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) completed a four-day training course on conflict prevention...
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine based on information received until 1 July 2014, 18:00 (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 2 July 2014
Tensions remained in parts of Donbas. The situation was calm elsewhere across the country...