News and press releases

SKOPJE, 25 June 2014 – The political and socio-economic factors that lead to terrorist radicalization and recruitment were the focus of an OSCE seminar which started today in Skopje, and brought together some 50 participants, including security experts from eight countries and representatives of state agencies and civil society...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 25 June 2014 – Efficient water management as a way of promoting environmentally-friendly sustainable growth and improving the local ecology is the focus of an OSCE-supported event that started today in Almaty for members of the Balkhash-Alakol Water Basin Council...

PODGORICA, 20 June 2014 – The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, strongly condemns the personalized and offensive attacks contained in recent reports by the Informer newspaper against Vanja Calovic, the Executive Director of the Network for Affirmation of the NGO Sector (MANS)...

VIENNA, 25 June 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today criticized amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation that could further increase government control of the Internet...

Bern, June 24, 2014- Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs, Didier Burkhalter, held several bilateral talks regarding the situation in Ukraine at the margins of the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference today in Vienna.

The situation across the country was calm except in parts of Donbas, where tensions remained. In Lviv an office of the Russian-owned ‘Sberbank’ was vandalised. Four SMM monitors from the Donetsk team have been missing for 29 days and four SMM monitors from the Luhansk team for 26 days...

VIENNA, 24 June 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned the brutal beating of writer and columnist Slavo Kukić...