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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Press Statement of the OSCE Chair’s Special Representative Sajdik after Meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on 21 December 2016
Publishing date: 21 December 2016
MINSK, 21 December – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Martin Sajdik made the following press statement after the meeting of the TCG and its Working Groups in Minsk on 21 December 2016.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier welcomes declaration of the Trilateral Contact Group on renewed ceasefire commitment in Ukraine
Publishing date: 21 December 2016
BERLIN, 21 December 2016 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier today welcomed the declaration of the Trilateral Contact Group in which the sides recommitted to a comprehensive, sustainable and durable ceasefire starting from 24 December 2016 and reconfirmed their will to implement the Minsk agreements and to continue the Minsk process effectively in the year 2017.
OSCE Permanent Council adopts declaration condemning the deadly terrorist attack against the Russian Ambassador to Turkey
Publishing date: 20 December 2016
VIENNA, 20 December 2016 – Today, the OSCE participating States convened in a special session of the Permanent Council in Vienna and adopted by consensus a declaration on the deadly terrorist attack against the Russian Ambassador to Turkey that was perpetrated in Ankara on 19 December.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier and Secretary General Zannier condemn deadly attack against Russian Ambassador in Turkey
Publishing date: 19 December 2016
BERLIN / VIENNA, 19 December 2016- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Secretary General Lamberto Zannier strongly condemned the fatal attack on the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Ankara today.
Press Communiqué of Co-Chairs of Geneva International Discussions
Publishing date: 14 December 2016
GENEVA, Switzerland, 14 December 2016- The thirty-eighth round of the Geneva International Discussions was held today...
Positive agenda on migration governance needed, conclude participants of IOM and OSCE hosted discussion in Vienna
Publishing date: 14 December 2016
VIENNA, 14 December 2016 – Now more than ever there is a strong need for inclusive and collaborative dialogue promoting a positive agenda on migration governance, conclude in Vienna today participants of a discussion hosted by the OSCE and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on the development of the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, following the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants adopted by the UN General Assembly in September...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier sees elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as an important step for further reforms
Publishing date: 12 December 2016
BERLIN, 12 December 2016 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in a statement today said he considered the elections that took place in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on 11 December 2016 to be “an important step to settle the continued political crisis in the country.” Steinmeier noted that the International Election Observation Mission under the aegis of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights found in its statement, as presented today in Skopje, that the election proceeded without major incidents...