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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office offers further support to ongoing reforms, discusses current issues in peace negotiations during visit to Armenia
Publishing date: 13 March 2019
YEREVAN, 13 March 2019 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovakia’s Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák emphasized the importance of creating perspectives for peace during his visit to Armenia today. He welcomed the commitment to reforms and discussed the ongoing work and next steps in the negotiations for a peaceful solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as well as the OSCE’s longstanding engagement with and in Armenia.
Press Statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sajdik after Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 13 March 2019
Publishing date: 13 March 2019
MINSK, 13 March 2019 – 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 13 March 2019
Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sajdik welcomes recommitment to ceasefire in eastern Ukraine in connection with 8 March
Publishing date: 8 March 2019
KYIV, 8 March 2018 – Yesterday, the Working Group on Security Issues reached a decision on the recommitment to the ceasefire, starting at 00:01 (Kiev time) on 8 March 2019. Welcoming this decision, the Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik informed the Trilateral Contact Group of it and issued the following statement in his personal capacity:
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Secretary General welcome new recommitment to cease fire in Ukraine
Publishing date: 8 March 2019
NEW YORK/VIENNA, 8 March 2019- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Slovakia’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger welcomed the new recommitment to cease fire in eastern Ukraine that came into effect today at 00:01 (Kyiv time) and should bring a decrease in violence...
On International Women’s Day OSCE officials call for action on violence against women and girls, stress benefits of their participation for society
Publishing date: 8 March 2019
VIENNA, 8 March 2019 – Greater efforts are needed to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls occurring both in private and public life, which prevents them from being full and equal participants in society, said OSCE senior officials on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
Chief Monitor of OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Apakan and Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sajdik welcome recommitment to ceasefire in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 8 March 2019
KYIV, 8 March 2019 – Yesterday, the Trilateral Contact Group recommitted to the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. Ertugrul Apakan, Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, and Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and to the Trilateral Contact Group, welcomed the recommitment by issuing the following statement:...
“We need to continue working together. Now more than ever” – OSCE Chairperson Lajčák calls for stronger UN-OSCE co-operation at UN Security Council
Publishing date: 7 March 2019
NEW YORK, United States, 7 March 2019 – Briefing the United Nations Security Council on the priorities of the 2019 Slovak OSCE Chairmanship in New York today, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Slovakia’s Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, Miroslav Lajčák reconfirmed the OSCE’s commitment to supporting the implementation of the UN global mandate at the regional level.