News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Fostering dialogue through cross-border training for young Afghan and Turkmen diplomats at the OSCE in Vienna
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
VIENNA, 22 September 2016 – At the invitation of the German Federal Foreign Office, eleven young diplomats from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Iran today visited the OSCE in Vienna in order to gain better knowledge and understanding of the world’s largest regional security organization and meet representatives of the German OSCE Chairmanship and of the OSCE Secretariat. Prior to their visit, the group attended a day-long OSCE workshop in Berlin. Turkmenistan is an OSCE participating State while Afghanistan is an OSCE Asian Partner for Co-operation...
Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine informed about results of Trilateral Contact Group
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
MINSK, 22 September 2016- Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) made the following press statement after the meeting of the TCG and its four Working Groups in Minsk on 21 September 2016:
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier calls on sides to adhere to new Framework Decision on Disengagement in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
NEW YORK, 22 September 2016- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomed the Framework Decision on Disengagement of Forces and Hardware agreed by the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on 21 September 2016.
Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine Sajdik welcomes Framework Decision on Disengagement of Forces and Hardware
Publishing date: 21 September 2016
MINSK, 21 September 2016 – Ambassador Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and to the Trilateral Contact Group, made the following press statement today after a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group:...
Maintaining a constant commitment to human rights the foundation of real security, say speakers at OSCE conference in Warsaw
Publishing date: 19 September 2016
WARSAW, 19 September 2016- OSCE participating States must focus on their commitments to defend human rights to effectively retain real security, speakers said at the opening of the 20th OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw today...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier, in eastern Ukraine, praises work of Special Monitoring Mission and welcomes recommitment by the sides to the cease-fire
Publishing date: 15 September 2016
KRAMATORSK, 15 September 2016- On the second day of his visit to Ukraine, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, together with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, visited the Patrol Hub of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) in the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine. They also met with internally displaced persons (IDP) in Sloviansk. The ministers were accompanied by OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office visits Ukraine for political talks and to meet monitors of the Special Monitoring Mission together with OSCE Secretary General
Publishing date: 14 September 2016
BERLIN / KYIV, 14 September 2016- German Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Frank-Walter Steinmeier has embarked on a two-day visit to Ukraine, starting with political talks in Kyiv today. Steinmeier’s meetings with President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine will take place together with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, thus reflecting the close and continuous political partnership of Germany and France in the framework of the so-called Normandy format...