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OSCE Chair Lajčák visits reopened Stanytsia Luhanska Bridge; hails progress in building confidence but says major steps still needed to resolve conflict
Publishing date: 29 November 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KHARKOV/STANYTSIA LUHANSKA, Ukraine, 29 November 2019 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, together with Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasyl Bodnar, today visited the repaired and reopened Stanytsia Luhanska Bridge...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 282/2019 issued on 28 November 2019
Publishing date: 28 November 2019
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and more in Luhansk region. The SMM saw that some of the previously observed positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and of the armed formations inside the Zolote disengagement area
Press Statement of Special Representative Sajdik after the regular Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on 27 November 2019
Publishing date: 27 November 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
MINSK, 27 November 2019 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its working groups in Minsk on 27 November 2019:..
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 281/2019 issued on 27 November 2019
Publishing date: 27 November 2019
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and fewer in Luhansk region. A woman was injured due to gunfire in government-controlled Marinka. The SMM saw a trench filled with concrete blocks and soil on the road between
OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration publishes activity report for 2017–2019
Publishing date: 27 November 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: Court of Conciliation and Arbitration
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE, based in Geneva, published its activity report for the period 2017–2019 on 26 November 2019, following the completion of the mandate of the outgoing Bureau of the Court, headed by Professor Christian Tomuschat, last month...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 280/2019 issued on 26 November 2019
Publishing date: 26 November 2019
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary Compared with the previous 24 hours, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Petrivske and Stanytsia Luhanska disengagement areas. It also observed demining activities and saw that fortifications had
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 26 November 2019
Publishing date: 26 November 2019
Content type: Weekly report
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons decreased at both BCPs compared to the previous week. The ninetieth Russian convoy crossed into Ukraine and returned through the Donetsk BCP.