News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Open exchange of views vital to protecting human rights, strengthening democratic institutions, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Special Representative, OSCE Secretary General and ODIHR Director say at close of Warsaw Conference
Publishing date: 30 September 2016
WARSAW, 30 September 2016 – The free and open exchange of views and information is vital to helping governments protect and promote human rights, fundamental freedoms and tolerance and non-discrimination, as well as to improve and strengthen democratic practices and institutions, Gernot Erler, Germany’s Special Representative for the 2016 OSCE Chairmanship, Lamberto Zannier, OSCE Secretary General, and Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said today on the occasion of the closing of a two-week OSCE conference in Warsaw...
Education, security and coalition-building at the heart of OSCE/ODIHR project on addressing anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance
Publishing date: 28 September 2016
WARSAW, 28 September 2016 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is unveiling today a project focused on addressing the security needs of Jewish communities, fostering coalition building among different communities, and countering anti-Semitism through education, at an event in Warsaw...
70th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 28 September 2016
On 28th September 2016, the 70th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Ergneti, co-facilitated by Kęstutis Jankauskas, the Head of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) and Ambassador Guenther Baechler, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus...
OSCE Special Representative calls on Chisinau and Tiraspol not to lose sight of opportunity created in Berlin for a results-oriented dialogue
Publishing date: 28 September 2016
CHISINAU, 28 September 2016 – The Special Representative of the German OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian Settlement Process, Cord Meier-Klodt, today concluded a working visit to meet with Political Representatives in Chisinau and Tiraspol...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Secretary General mourn the death of Shimon Peres
Publishing date: 28 September 2016
BERLIN / VIENNA, 28 September 2016 – Following the news on the passing of former President and Prime Minster of Israel Shimon Peres, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier today expressed their deep sadness and honoured his life’s work...
Strengthening OSCE capacities in civilian crisis management discussed at high-level side event at UN General Assembly
Publishing date: 23 September 2016
NEW YORK, 23 September 2016 –“We are committed to the OSCE’s inclusive, civilian and comprehensive approach covering the entire conflict cycle: from early warning and prevention through crisis management to post-conflict peacebuilding,” OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier stressed at a high-level event on “The Force of Civilian Crisis Management – Strengthening the Capacities of the OSCE as a Chapter VIII Organization” that took place on the margins of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 22 September 2016...
Statement by Co-Chairs of OSCE Minsk Group
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
New York, 22 September 2016- The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, James Warlick of the United States of America, and Pierre Andrieu of France, as well as the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, met separately with the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in New York on the margins of the UN General Assembly to continue discussions on a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.