News and press releases

LJUBLJANA, 16 May 2005- In his capacity as OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Dr Dimitrij Rupel, Slovenia's Foreign Minister is participating in the Third Council of Europe Summit in Warsaw on 16 and 17 May, where he will sign a joint declaration on co-operati...

LJUBLJANA, 15 May 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel expressed his deep concern about recent events in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan, where government forces are reported to have opened fire, killing many demonstrators. Violence...

LJUBLJANA, 13 May 2005- OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel today welcomed the belated adoption of the Organization's 2005 budget by the Permanent Council and called on all participating States to agree new scales of contribution soon. The 168.6 m...

LJUBLJANA, 12 May 2005- OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel expressed serious concern over the detention on Thursday of two monitoring officers from the OSCE Mission to Georgia by armed men in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. The two...

LJUBLJANA, 9 May 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office issued the following statement on Monday on the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War Two: "Sixty years ago this month, a world at war and a devastated Europe breathed a sigh of relief...

LJUBLJANA, 3 May 2005- OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel paid tribute on World Press Freedom Day to the large number of journalists who have contributed to democratic change in the OSCE region in the last 30 years through their work...

PARIS, 28 April 2005- Violence against women is not only a widespread global problem but also a major obstacle to women's expression of free will and humanity's progress towards equality, development and peace, the OSCE Chairman said today in Paris...