News and press releases

LINZ, Austria, 15 May 2017 – A two-day academic conference on the topic of „connectivity“, a main priority of the OSCE 2017 Austrian Chairmanship in the economic and environmental area, opened today in Linz...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 12 May 2017 – A group of 15 young experts from the wider Central Asia region convened today in Almaty, Kazakhstan for a two-day workshop to discuss their role in the prevention of violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (VERLT)...

VIENNA, 12 May 2017 – High-level diplomats and experts from across the OSCE region met at the Hofburg today to exchange best practices and discuss ways to stamp out human trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households.

VIENNA, 12 May 2016 – High-level diplomats and experts from across the OSCE region met at the Hofburg today to exchange best practices and discuss ways to stamp out human trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households.

ERGNETI, 11 May 2017- The 77th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in Ergneti. Ambassador Kestutis Jankauskas, Head of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and ambassador Guenther Baechler, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus, co-facilitated the proceedings...

Austria’s 2017 OSCE Chairmanship is bringing together military as well as civilian experts on 4 and 5 May 2017 to discuss current and future challenges to security in Europe with a special focus on military aspects of security. The Intersessional OSCE Dialogue on Military Doctrines is hosted by Austria’s Federal Ministry of Defence at the National Defence Academy in Vienna...

VIENNA, 28 April 2017- The OSCE Permanent Council issued in Vienna yesterday a declaration of support for the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine following the tragic incident in eastern Ukraine on 23 April in which an SMM patrol member was killed in the line of duty by an explosion...