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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Afghanistan’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Cooperation Raz in address to Permanent Council underlines importance of partnership with OSCE
Publishing date: 10 November 2016
VIENNA, 10 November 2016 – Addressing the 57 OSCE participating States and the OSCE Partners for Co-operation in the Permanent Council in Vienna today, Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Cooperation of Afghanistan Adela Raz underlined the importance to her country of its partnership with the OSCE...
OSCE Secretary General Zannier congratulates Donald Trump on winning the U.S. Presidency
Publishing date: 9 November 2016
VIENNA, 9 November 2016 –The Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Lamberto Zannier today congratulated Donald Trump on winning the Presidency of the United States of America...
OSCE Secretariat and IATA sign co-operation agreement aiming to contribute to international efforts to enhance aviation security
Publishing date: 14 October 2016
GENEVA, Switzerland, 14 October 2016 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and Director General and Chief Executive Alexandre de Juniac of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva today to intensify co-operation and support international efforts for enhancing aviation security and preventing the travel of foreign terrorist fighters...
OSCE Secretary General, in Iceland, meets country’s Foreign Minister, addresses conference on ‘recapturing the spirit’ of 1986 Reykjavik Summit
Publishing date: 13 October 2016
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier visited Iceland 10-11 October 2016, where he met the country’s foreign minister and addressed a conference marking thirty years since the landmark 1986 Reykjavik Summit on the reduction of nuclear-armed missiles...
At high-level OSCE Security Days event in Vienna diplomats and experts discuss ways to increase military predictability and new conventional arms control initiative
Publishing date: 7 October 2016
Reviving military confidence-building, risk reduction and arms control in the OSCE region was the topic of strategic discussions among high-level diplomats and experts including key representatives of NATO and the Russian Federation at an OSCE Security Days event hosted by OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier in Vienna on 3 October 2016...
OSCE Chairperson and OSCE Secretary General congratulate António Guterres on his appointment as UN Secretary-General
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
BERLIN/VIENNA, 6 October 2016- Following the UN Security Council decision to appoint António Guterres as the new UN Secretary-General, OSCE Chairperson-in Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier expressed their heartfelt congratulations and praised the choice. Steinmeier said he hoped for enormous support in the UN General Assembly, which would give Guterres a strong mandate for leadership of the United Nations...
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...