News and press releases

CHISINAU, 20 March 2014 – Twenty-eight officers of the Moldovan armed forces today successfully completed an OSCE-supported training course on physical security and stockpile management of small arms, light weapons and conventional ammunition, in light of the introduction of new ammunition procedures in Moldova...

COPENHAGEN, 20 March 2014 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Special Representative on Border Co-operation, Ignacio Sanchez Amor (MP, Spain), has completed a study visit to the Serbian-Hungarian border.

VIENNA, 20 March 2014 – The OSCE today started to deploy a team of 15 international experts to Ukraine as part of a National Dialogue project to identify areas for further OSCE activities to support confidence-building between different parts of Ukrainian society...

More than 190 judges, prosecutors, attorneys and police officials will receive practical advanced training on particular concepts of the criminal procedure in 2014. The training, the first session of which takes place on 20 March 2014, is organized by the OSCE Mission to Skopje with the aim of strengthening the professionalism, efficiency and transparency of justice...

An OSCE-supported expert meeting on the rights of persons sentenced to life imprisonment under the new draft Criminal Executive Code of Kazakhstan took place on 20 March 2014 in Almaty...

KYIV, 20 March 2014 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened an election observation mission for the 25 May 2014 early presidential election in Ukraine. The mission’s deployment follows an invitation from the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

COPENHAGEN, 19 March 2014 – A delegation led by senior OSCE parliamentarians will observe Ukraine’s presidential election on 25 May and provide leadership for the OSCE's short-term observer mission.