News and press releases

ISTANBUL, 17 November 2025 – Today, OSCE Secretary General, Feridun H. Sinirlioğlu addressed the 23rd Autumn Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, hosted in Istanbul, Türkiye. In his remarks, the Secretary General emphasized the urgent need to revitalize multilateralism and rebuild meaningful security dialogue to strengthen safety and security across the OSCE region and beyond.

From 11 to 13 November, the OSCE Secretariat together with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) jointly organized an in-person training course in Vienna for 26 members of the OSCE Pool of Young Experts on professional competencies in the field of peace and security with a focus on negotiations.

LONDON/VIENNA, 13 November 2025 – Today, the OSCE began supporting the United Kingdom Government and London Metropolitan Police in a significant national operation to secure and catalogue just under 200 cultural artefacts.

On 12 and 13 November, representatives of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan came together in Tashkent, Uzbekistan for the Central Asian Regional Workshop on Requesting Electronic Evidence Across Borders, organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan.

Over the past year, the OSCE, in partnership with Switzerland and local partners, has brought together hundreds of young professionals from across Central Asia to co-create solutions for the region’s interconnected Water-Energy-Food (WEF) challenges. Through the “Drops of the Future” workshop

More than 20 representatives from Kyrgyzstan’s environmental, health, academic, civil society and sectoral planning institutions learned about Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) at a training workshop in Bishkek organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities in close co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek from 6 to 7 November.

Over 100 experts shared good practices and technical expertise at the Ninth Annual Passenger Data Seminar held at the Hofburg in Vienna on 6 to 7 November. The event was organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and its Countering Terrorist Travel Programme.