News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairman-in-Office launches Renewed OSCE European Security Dialogue
Publishing date: 8 February 2022
VIENNA, 8 February 2022 – Today, OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Poland Zbigniew Rau launched the Renewed OSCE European Security Dialogue (RESD) during a high-level meeting.
OSCE leaders call for greater efforts to combat anti-Semitism across the OSCE region
Publishing date: 8 February 2022
WARSAW, 8 February 2022 – A two-day conference at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews under the auspices of Poland’s Chairmanship of the OSCE in 2022 gathered together OSCE leaders and several hundred online and in-person participants to discuss more effective ways of combating anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and discrimination. The event was preceded by a wreath-laying ceremony at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes.
OSCE Chairman-in-Office presented priorities to U.S. Helsinki Commission
Publishing date: 3 February 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C., 3 February 2022 – The OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Zbigniew Rau, participated in a congressional hearing with the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe today.
Press Statement of Special Representative Kinnunen after the regular Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 26 January 2022
Publishing date: 26 January 2022
KYIV, 26 January 2022 – The Special Representative of the OSCE ChairpersonChairman-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Mikko Kinnunen, made the following statement to the press after the regular meetings of the TCG and its Working Groups held through video conferencing:
104th Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 20 January 2022
ERGNETI, 20 January 2022 — The 104th meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place today in Ergneti, under the co-facilitation of Ambassador Marek Szczygieł, Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and Ambassador Viorel Moşanu, newly appointed Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus.
OSCE Chairman-in-Office Zbigniew Rau presents Poland’s 2022 priorities to Permanent Council
Publishing date: 13 January 2022
VIENNA, 13 January 2022 – Poland’s Chairmanship of the OSCE in 2022 intends to promote and advance the rational, smart and flexible use of the OSCE’s unique tools and negotiation formats. “We need to reinvigorate the debate about European security. Let us start a process that will help us to uphold the Helsinki principles in full conformity with international law,” OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Zbigniew Rau said in his address to the Permanent Council in Vienna today.
Statement by the OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office on the situation along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border
Publishing date: 12 January 2022
VIENNA, 12 January 2022 – The Polish OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office expresses deep concern about renewed clashes along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border and that this violence resulted in casualties.