News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE convenes first meeting of Multi-Agency Committee in Serbia for combating gender-based violence in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 28 October 2021
On 26 October 2021, the OSCE convened the first meeting of the Multi-Agency Committee in Serbia established as part of its project, Enhancing Criminal Justice Capacities for Combating Gender-based Violence in South-Eastern Europe.
Social re-use of confiscated assets from organized crime focus of OSCE-supported workshop in Serbia
Publishing date: 6 May 2021
On 5 May 2021, the Serbian Directorate for the Administration of Seized Assets, eight local civil society organizations (CSOs) and OSCE experts discussed opportunities and modalities to socially re-use assets confiscated from organized crime...
OSCE supports 6th Meeting of Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors
Publishing date: 29 April 2021
Over 30 participants took part in the sixth meeting of the Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors (PCOCP) organized online by the OSCE Secretariat in collaboration with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, on 27 April 2021.
OSCE supports Meeting of Executive Board of Permanent Conference of Prosecutors
Publishing date: 23 February 2021
The programmatic activities for 2021 and a decision on the next host country for its Secretariat were the focus of the meeting of the Executive Board of the Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors (PCOCP) held on 23 February 2021.
OSCE supports Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors in assessing impact of COVID-19 on prosecutors’ work
Publishing date: 20 November 2020
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work of prosecutors’ offices was the focus of the fifth meeting of the Executive Board of the Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors (PCOCP) on 12 November 2020. The meeting was held online with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia...
OSCE regional workshop in Belgrade explores how to enhance international co-operation and mutual legal assistance in recovering assets gained through organized crime
Publishing date: 19 December 2019
Representatives from police services and prosecution offices of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia completed a three-day workshop organized by the OSCE in Belgrade on 19 December 2019 on promoting closer co-operation and mutual legal assistance requests among countries of South-Eastern Europe to fight organized crime, particularly through the recovery of criminal assets...
Former OSCE Chair Serbia remains key partner in the region says OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Lajčák during visit to Belgrade
Publishing date: 4 June 2019
BELGRADE, 4 June 2019 – Visiting Serbia today as part of his commitment to visit all OSCE field missions, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, together with First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dačić and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Andrea Orizio, opened the High-Level Discussion on Security Sector Governance and Reform (SSG/R) in South-Eastern Europe in Belgrade...