News and press releases

Some 18 officers of the Moldovan armed forces, as well as representatives of the Interior and Justice Ministries successfully completed a training course on the safe handling of ammunition stockpiles held at the Military Academy in Chisinau from 23 February to 11 March 2016...

VIENNA, 9 March 2016 – Current security challenges in the OSCE area need to be tackled through a comprehensive dialogue process with all participating States demonstrating political will, said speakers at a joint meeting today of the Organization’s Forum for Security Co-operation, currently chaired by the Netherlands, and its Permanent Council chaired by Germany...

Tajikistan’s Government on 9 February 2016 approved a National Action Plan, drafted with the support of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre and the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, on implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, their components and means of delivery. A corresponding resolution on the Plan’s further implementation by designated governmental structures was signed by the country the same day...

VIENNA, 16 February 2016 – Improving mutual relations among OSCE participating States and enabling information exchange among military representatives with the aim of building trust and confidence is the focus of the two-day High-Level Military Doctrine Seminar organized by the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC), which opened today in Vienna...

BERLIN, 7 February 2016- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, condemned today in the strongest terms the launch of a ballistic missile by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)...

MEREFA, Ukraine, 4 December 2015– A first group of 12 Ukrainian emergency personnel officers completed a four-day training course today on operation of an information management system for mine action (IMSMA), organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine at the State Emergency Service training facility in Kharkiv oblast...

Best practices in reducing and responding to the threat of explosive hazards was the focus of an OSCE-supported three-day visit by a delegation from three Central Asian countries to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which concluded on 19 November 2015...