News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
World Day of Social Justice: “Fighting human trafficking means fighting poverty, unemployment and inequality”
Publishing date: 20 February 2014
VIENNA, 20 February 2014 – Leading officials from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) today marked the World Day of Social Justice by linking the struggle against human trafficking with eradicating poverty, promoting full employment and decent work, gender equality and access to justice...
OSCE Secretary General on Ukraine as Ministerial Council meets
Publishing date: 4 December 2013
Kyiv, 4 December 2013- On the eve of the Organization’s Ministerial Council, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and the Organization’s Chairperson in Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara discussed ongoing developments in Ukraine.
OSCE Secretary General: Kosovo election process “significant step forward”
Publishing date: 1 December 2013
VIENNA, 1 December 2013 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier has welcomed the peaceful and orderly voting in the municipal election in Kosovo as a “significant step towards confidence and security.”
OSCE Secretary General meets NATO counterpart in Brussels to discuss Western Balkans, Afghanistan
Publishing date: 25 November 2013
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during an official visit to Brussels on 25 and 26 November 2013...
OSCE Secretary General congratulates Georgian President on inauguration
Publishing date: 18 November 2013
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and newly-inaugurated Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili have discussed co-operation and priorities during a meeting on the fringes of the inauguration ceremony in Tbilisi this weekend...
Peaceful Kosovo poll welcomed by OSCE SG Zannier
Publishing date: 18 November 2013
VIENNA, 18 November 2013- OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier has welcomed the peaceful re-run of voting in three polling centres in northern Mitrovica/Mitrovicë...
OSCE model of co-operative security, confidence-building can serve as inspiration for other regions, says Secretary General, in Korea
Publishing date: 12 November 2013
SEOUL, 12 November 2013 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, in a keynote speech at the 2013 Seoul Defense Dialogue conference today, outlined key historic milestones of the Organization’s development and its principles, and discussed how the OSCE’s concept of comprehensive, co-operative security could serve as inspiration for other regions of the world, including Northeast Asia...