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Preventing Human Trafficking for Domestic Servitude in Diplomatic Households

Publishing date: 12 May 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 12 May 2016 – High-level diplomats and experts from across the OSCE region met at the Hofburg today to exchange best practices and discuss ways to stamp out human trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households.

77th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti

Publishing date: 11 May 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
ERGNETI, 11 May 2017- The 77th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in Ergneti. Ambassador Kestutis Jankauskas, Head of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and ambassador Guenther Baechler, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus, co-facilitated the proceedings...

Austria’s OSCE Chairmanship holds discussion on military doctrines with focus on different threat perceptions

Publishing date: 4 May 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
Austria’s 2017 OSCE Chairmanship is bringing together military as well as civilian experts on 4 and 5 May 2017 to discuss current and future challenges to security in Europe with a special focus on military aspects of security. The Intersessional OSCE Dialogue on Military Doctrines is hosted by Austria’s Federal Ministry of Defence at the National Defence Academy in Vienna...

OSCE Permanent Council expresses support for Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, calls for swift investigation

Publishing date: 28 April 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 28 April 2017- The OSCE Permanent Council issued in Vienna yesterday a declaration of support for the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine following the tragic incident in eastern Ukraine on 23 April in which an SMM patrol member was killed in the line of duty by an explosion...

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Kurz and Secretary General Zannier strongly condemn attack on Parliament in Skopje

Publishing date: 27 April 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 27 April 2017 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier firmly condemn tonight’s attack on the Parliament building in Skopje. Violence can not substitute for political solutions. Such solutions must be found within the democratic processes in a responsible manner...

Press Statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine Sajdik after meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 26 April 2017

Publishing date: 27 April 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
MINSK, 27 April 2017 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its three working groups in Minsk on 26 April 2017:..

OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek to become operational on 1 May 2017

Publishing date: 27 April 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
VIENNA, 27 April 2017- Following today’s decision of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek will be transformed into the “OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek” as of 1 May 2017...