News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Dialogue, trust and security are watchwords for 2016 Germany’s OSCE Chairmanship, Foreign Minister Steinmeier tells OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 2 July 2015
VIENNA, 2 July 2015 – Germany is ready to take on the responsibility of steering the OSCE against the background of one of the most serious crises since the end of the Cold War, with a vision for its 2016 Chairmanship based on dialogue, trust and security, the country’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told the OSCE’s Permanent Council in Vienna today...
OSCE supports co-operation among law enforcement agencies in South East Europe
Publishing date: 2 July 2015
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2 July 2015 – Over 30 representatives from ten OSCE participating States of the South-Eastern European region and experts from nine international and regional organizations are meeting on 2 and 3 July in Sarajevo to discuss law enforcement co-operation in combating the increasing spread of new psychoactive substances...
Unite and co-operate at all levels to counter terrorism, say participants at close of OSCE-wide conference
Publishing date: 1 July 2015
VIENNA, 1 July 2015 – The OSCE must take a united approach, encouraging co-operation at all levels, and engaging youth and communities, to effectively counter terrorism and the phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters, said Vuk Žugić, Chair of the OSCE Permanent Council as he concluded a two-day OSCE-wide conference today on behalf of Serbia’s 2015 OSCE Chairmanship...
OSCE Programme Office in Astana supports Regional Conference on Countering Violent Extremism
Publishing date: 30 June 2015
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, 30 June 2015 – The two-day Central and South Asia Regional Conference on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) as a follow-on to the CVE Summit held in Washington D.C., in February 2015 concluded its work today in Astana, Kazakhstan. It adopted a set of recommendations and proposed a concrete steps to enhance national and regional efforts in advance of the CVE leaders’ summit to be held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September in New York...
Empowering youth critical to preventing incitement and radicalization of foreign terrorist fighters, say participants of OSCE conference in Vienna
Publishing date: 30 June 2015
VIENNA, 30 June 2015- Empowering young people and engaging with individuals at risk of radicalization is crucial to countering the phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters and confronting violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism, said participants at the start of a two-day OSCE-wide counter-terrorism conference which opened in Vienna today...
OSCE PA President deplores terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait
Publishing date: 29 June 2015
COPENHAGEN, 26 June 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) today issued the following statement on the terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait:
OSCE Chairperson Dačić and Secretary General Zannier condemn terrorist attacks in Tunisia and France, stress need for unity and solidarity
Publishing date: 26 June 2015
BELGRADE/VIENNA, 26 June 2015 – Sharply condemning the terrorist attacks in Tunisia and France today, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier stressed the need for unity and solidarity in the face of violent extremism...