Skip navigation

0Meta Navigation

× Close search

Navigation

Home Newsroom Press releases
Newsroom

News and press releases

Subscribe to News Updates

News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.

OSCE Chairmanship concerned about closure of crossing points, stresses negative implications for local population

Publishing date: 7 March 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 7 March 2017- Reacting on the closure of two crossing points along the Administrative Boundary Line of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, Nabakevi-Khurcha and Meore Otobaia-Orsantia, which reduces the number of crossing points to two, following the closure of two others in 2016, a spokesperson of the OSCE Chairmanship said today:...

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Personal Representative on Combating Anti-Semitism encouraged by initial steps to support Holocaust education and remembrance in Moldova

Publishing date: 3 March 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
CHISINAU, 3 March 2017 – The Personal Representative of the Austrian OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism, Rabbi Andrew Baker, today concluded his first official visit to Moldova, where he met with government and Jewish community representatives to discuss measures to strengthen the commemoration and study of the Holocaust in Moldova and to combat anti-Semitism, intolerance and hate crimes...

75th Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism meeting takes place in Ergneti

Publishing date: 2 March 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
On 2 March 2017, the 75th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in Ergneti. 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...

New OSCE and UNHCR handbook aims to help states to address statelessness

Publishing date: 2 March 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues, Roma and Sinti
VIENNA, 2 March 2017 – Statelessness, a human rights and security issue affecting hundreds of thousands of people across the OSCE region according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is the focus of a new handbook of international standards and good practices launched in Vienna today by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the UNHCR...

OSCE Permanent Council renews mandate of the Office in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 2 March 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 2 March 2017 – Following today’s decision of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, the mandate of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan was extended until 30 June 2017...

Press Statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sajdik after meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on 1 March 2017

Publishing date: 2 March 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
MINSK, 2 March 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 working groups in Minsk on 1 March 2017:..

Joint statement by Austrian OSCE Chairmanship and Romanian Chair of Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) on explosions at Kragujevac Military Facility

Publishing date: 1 March 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Forum for Security Co-operation
VIENNA, 1 March 2017 – We are deeply saddened to hear of the explosions at the Kragujevac Military Facility in Serbia, site of a joint OSCE-UNDP project, which resulted in the death of at least one person, with many others injured or missing...