News and press releases

VIENNA, 8 March 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today strongly condemned the attack on Olivera Lakić, a journalist with the daily newspaper Vijesti.

PODGORICA, 20 December 2011 – Representatives of judicial training institutions from the region met in Podgorica today to discuss how to step up their contribution to achieving justice in war crimes cases by providing effective training to judicial staff involved in such cases...

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro issued the following statement on the attack against a television crew from TV Vijesti on 18 November 2011:

In a visit to the office of the daily newspaper “Pobjeda” on 15 November 2011, the Head of the OSCE Mission, Šarunas Adomavičius, discussed issues on the state of the media in Montenegro and the prospects for the privatization of ''Pobjeda'' with the newspaper's Editor, Srđan Kusovac, Chief Executive Lav Lajović and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Miodrag Ivanović.

The findings of a survey on media freedom in Montenegro were presented at a roundtable event in Podgorica on 2 November 2011. The event was organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the Culture Ministry and the non-governmental organization the Centre for Democracy and Human Rights...

PODGORICA, 9 September 2011 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Šarunas Adomavičius, today transmitted his good wishes to the country's President, Speaker of Parliament, Prime Minister and Members of Parliament on the adoption of the Law on the Election of Councillors and Members of Parliament...

The OSCE Head of Mission, Ambassador Šarunas Adomavičius, met the Director of Montenegro's police, Veselin Veljovic, on 6 September 2011 to discuss the continuing police investigation into the three arson attacks on vehicles owned by daily newspaper Vijesti on 14 and 23 July and on 27 August....