News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Representative Sajdik and Chief Monitor Apakan call for restraint and full adherence to ceasefire amid upsurge in violence
Publishing date: 12 April 2018
KYIV, 12 April 2018 – A recent upsurge in violence in eastern Ukraine threatens the lives and wellbeing of the civilian population and further undermines the ceasefire upon which their security and safety depend, said the OSCE Chairperson’s Special Representative to the Trilateral Contact Group, Martin Sajdik, and the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), Ertugrul Apakan, today...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine to hold news briefing in Kyiv on Thursday
Publishing date: 4 April 2018
KYIV, 4 April 2018 – The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) will hold its regular news briefing on Thursday, 5 April, in Kyiv.
OSCE SMM Chief Monitor Apakan and OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine Verba highlight importance of mine action
Publishing date: 4 April 2018
KYIV, 4 April 2018 – Today, as the world marks International Mine Awareness Day, the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ertugrul Apakan, and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Vaidotas Verba, highlighted the importance of mine action in eastern Ukraine...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission’s Principal Deputy Chief Monitor to brief media on Friday via videolink from eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 29 March 2018
KYIV, 29 March 2018 – Alexander Hug, the Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), will hold a news briefing on Friday via video link from eastern Ukraine.
OSCE SMM long-range unmanned aerial vehicles resume monitoring of security situation in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 28 March 2018
KYIV, 28 March 2018- The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) today re-introduced the use of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which will operate over Donetsk and Luhansk regions...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Chief Monitor welcomes renewed commitment to cease fire in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 26 March 2018
KYIV, 27 March 2018- Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine Ertugrul Apakan today welcomed the renewed commitment to the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Chief Monitor welcomes extension of Mission mandate
Publishing date: 22 March 2018
KYIV, 22 March 2018 – The Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), Ertugrul Apakan, welcomed today the extension of the SMM’s mandate for another year, stressing that the consensus decision of the OSCE’s 57 participating States constitutes both a continued commitment to the people of Ukraine and an endorsement of the Mission...