News and press releases

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...

Ottawa, 24 June 2017 – OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Madina Jarbussynova, concluded on Friday a five-day follow-up visit to Canada to discuss the country’s progress in implementing OSCE anti-trafficking commitments subsequent to the previous 2011 Special Representative’s report.

The OSCE Programme Office in Astana is supporting a training seminar and a regular meeting of the Aral-Syrdariya Water Basin Council which began in Kyzyl-Orda, Southern Kazakhstan on 27 June 2017...

Brussels, 27 June 2017 − Today, the EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn and the Director of OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Michael Georg Link launched a new project to support democratic elections in the Western Balkans...