News and press releases

WARSAW/NUR-SULTAN, 10 JANUARY 2022– OSCE Chairman-in Office Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau spoke today on the phone with Acting Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi.

WARSAW/VIENNA, 5 JANUARY 2022- I am closely following recent developments in Kazakhstan. I strongly believe that violence is never an appropriate response for resolving such tensions. This is why I call for a peaceful return to order and respect for democratic processes, while rights and freedoms, including freedom of assembly and freedom of expression, must be protected.

VIENNA/WARSAW, 1 January 2022 – Poland takes over the OSCE Chair today and will focus on making progress towards a peaceful resolution of conflicts in the OSCE area, in line with OSCE principles and commitments.

VIENNA, 29 December 2021 — Following a request from the Russian side, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian Settlement Process, Ambassador Thomas Mayr-Harting, met today in Vienna with the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, Dmitri Kozak, as well as with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko. Mr. Mayr-Harting was joined by Ambassador Tobias Lorentzson, Deputy Head of the Swedish Mission to the OSCE and Ms. Beata Baranska, First Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Poland to the OSCE, representing the current and incoming OSCE Chairs respectively.

STOCKHOLM, 23 December 2021 — The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Ann Linde, welcomed the strong determination to fully adhere to the Measures to Strengthen the Ceasefire agreement of 22 July 2020 expressed at yesterday’s meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group.

KYIV, 22 December 2021 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-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:

STOCKHOLM/VIENNA, 12 December 2021 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Ann Linde and OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid made the following statement regarding the decision taken on Friday in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) by the Republika Srpska National Assembly (RSNA) to take further steps in the direction of unilateral withdrawal from transfer agreements from the entities to the State.