News and press releases

An OSCE-supported two-day training seminar on best practices in combating corruption concluded on 28 June 2017 in Astana...

A two-day training course on mentorship principles for women leaders, organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, concluded in Dushanbe on 23 June 2017...

ASTANA, 28 June 2017 – The eleventh annual OSCE Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) seminar began today on the premises of ForteBank’s head office in Astana...

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro supported a customized two-day workshop on conducting financial investigations in money laundering cases from 21 to 22 June 2017 in Podgorica...

The SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions compared with the previous 24 hours. The SMM assessed a number of impact sites near Shchastia. The Mission continued monitoring the disengagement areas; it recorded ceasefire violations inside and near the Zolote disengagement area and saw a white signal flare fired from near a checkpoint south of the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge. Its access remained restricted there and elsewhere, including at a checkpoint near Sidove. The SMM continued to monitor the situation of civilians travelling across the Stanytsia Luhanska bridge. The SMM visited one border area not under government control. It monitored gatherings in Dnipro and Odessa...

VIENNA 27 June 2017 – Dialogue, co-operation and willingness to compromise are crucial to addressing the current security challenges, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz as he opened the three-day 2017 Annual Security Review Conference in Vienna today...

VIENNA, 27 June 2017- A team of students from the San Pablo CEU University of Spain was today awarded the first prize in a regional competition organized by the OSCE United in Countering Violent Extremism (#UnitedCVE) campaign as part of the Peer to Peer (P2P): Facebook Global Digital Challenge...