News and press releases

Kyiv, June 27, 2014- The four members of the Donetsk-based monitoring team of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMMU) that went missing since late May were released late yesterday after 32 days in captivity.

BAKU, 26 June 2014 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s most important annual gathering begins on Saturday, 28 June in Baku with addresses by senior governmental and parliamentary leaders at the center of some of the international community’s most pressing security issues...

Tensions remained in parts of Donbas. The situation was calm elsewhere across the country. Several railway tracks in Donbas have been damaged by unknown perpetrators. Four SMM monitors from the Donetsk team have been missing for 31 days and four SMM monitors from the Luhansk team for 28 days. The Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus called for their release...

ASHGABAT, 26 June 2014 – Effective investigation techniques in combatting money laundering were the focus of an OSCE-supported training course that concluded in Ashgabat today...

BISHKEK, 26 June 2014 – On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek together with the National Torture Prevention Centre, Freedom House and the non-governmental organization Golos Svobody held a roundtable meeting on torture and ill-treatment in detention facilities and the army in Kyrgyzstan...

BAKU, 25 June 2014 – After two years of advance work and several preparatory visits, the 23rd OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session in Baku is becoming a reality...

The situation across the country was calm. Four SMM monitors from the Donetsk team have been missing for 30 days and four SMM monitors from the Luhansk team for 27 days.