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Press Statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sajdik after meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on 16 January 2017
Publishing date: 17 January 2017
MINSK, 17 January 2017 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Martin Sajdik made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its working groups in Minsk on 16 January 2017:
Austria to serve as bridge builder, dialogue facilitator and an honest broker during its 2017 OSCE Chairmanship, says Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz
Publishing date: 12 January 2017
VIENNA, 12 January 2017 – Austria’s OSCE Chairmanship 2017 aims to make determined use of the OSCE’s instruments to work for greater security and stability in Europe by creating more confidence through more co-operation, more predictability and more concrete approaches, said Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz today in his inaugural address to the Permanent Council as the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office...
Defusing conflicts- re-establishing trust- fighting radicalization and violent extremism: Austria’s priorities for 2017 OSCE Chairmanship
Publishing date: 1 January 2017
VIENNA, 1 January 2017 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, highlighted three key challenges facing the Organization and its participating States as Austria took over as the 2017 OSCE Chairmanship: deplorable and complex crises and conflicts in the OSCE area, a fundamental lack of mutual trust and confidence, and an alarming phenomenon of growing radicalization and violent extremism, especially among young people: “We must vigorously engage and address this situation. The OSCE is the right platform to do so,” said Kurz.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Kurz and Secretary General Zannier condemn murderous attack in a nightclub in Istanbul
Publishing date: 1 January 2017
VIENNA, 1 January 2017- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sebastian Kurz and Secretary General Lamberto Zannier today strongly condemned the horrible attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul on New Year’s Eve.
Press Statement of the OSCE Chair’s Special Representative Sajdik after Meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on 21 December 2016
Publishing date: 21 December 2016
MINSK, 21 December – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Martin Sajdik made the following press statement after the meeting of the TCG and its Working Groups in Minsk on 21 December 2016.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier welcomes declaration of the Trilateral Contact Group on renewed ceasefire commitment in Ukraine
Publishing date: 21 December 2016
BERLIN, 21 December 2016 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier today welcomed the declaration of the Trilateral Contact Group in which the sides recommitted to a comprehensive, sustainable and durable ceasefire starting from 24 December 2016 and reconfirmed their will to implement the Minsk agreements and to continue the Minsk process effectively in the year 2017.
OSCE Permanent Council adopts declaration condemning the deadly terrorist attack against the Russian Ambassador to Turkey
Publishing date: 20 December 2016
VIENNA, 20 December 2016 – Today, the OSCE participating States convened in a special session of the Permanent Council in Vienna and adopted by consensus a declaration on the deadly terrorist attack against the Russian Ambassador to Turkey that was perpetrated in Ankara on 19 December.