News and press releases

The second and final round of training courses on the Model for Professional Development of School Management, which was organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in co-operation with the Ministry for Education, Science, Sports and Culture of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, attended by some 80 school directors, was held during 20 to 24 November 2017 in Mostar...

Vienna, 27 November 2017 – A two-day workshop on the “Prevention of Trafficking in Human Beings in Supply Chains through Government Practices and Measures” concluded on 24 November in Geneva, Switzerland. Organized by the OSCE with the support of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Switzerland, the workshop gathered over 50 participants, including representatives from 18 governments as well as international experts specialized in the fight against child and forced labour and human trafficking.

The Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, Ambassador Tuula Yrjölä met the Interior Minister of Tajikistan, Colonel General Rahimzoda Ramazon on 23 November 2017 to discuss areas of co-operation.

Strengthening the capacity of government officials from Kyrgyzstan to counter terrorist financing was the aim of a three-day train-the-trainers course organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Programme against Money Laundering, at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna from 25 to 27 November 2017...

VIENNA, 27 November 2017 – Local communities and businesses on both sides of the Dniester/Nistru River and across the wider region will benefit from agreements on several social and economic issues reached by the Sides in the Trandniestrian Settlement Process, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger...

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the Judicial Training Centre organized the second in a series of three one-day training courses on hate crime for representatives of the judiciary on 24 November 2017 in Podgorica...

The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions compared with the previous reporting period. It continued to observe armed men and armoured personnel carriers in Luhansk city centre. The SMM observed shelling damage in a residential area of Dovhe. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas near Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske; it recorded ceasefire violations inside the Petrivske disengagement area. Its access remained restricted in the disengagement areas.* It facilitated and monitored repairs and maintenance of essential infrastructure in Zalizne and Betmanove, as well as, reportedly, the transport of the bodies of deceased soldiers near Novotoshkivske and Sentianivka. The SMM followed up on the situation of civilians from Travneve close to the contact line.