News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
On International Day of Peace, OSCE Chair says education vital for reducing tensions, emphasises need to resolve protracted conflicts
Publishing date: 21 September 2013
KYIV, 21 September 2013 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara marked the International Day of Peace today by stressing the vital role education can play in promoting peace and the urgent need for increased and co-ordinated efforts to peacefully resolve protracted conflicts in the OSCE region...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports renovation of multi-ethnic school
Publishing date: 2 September 2013
SKOPJE, 2 September 2013 – The Mission to Skopje has supported the renovation of classrooms and provided basic equipment to the Shishevo branch of the “Sami Frasheri” primary school in the municipality of Saraj, which held a ceremony to open the new school year today...
OSCE Youth Summit opens in Ukraine with focus on diversity, peaceful development, stability
Publishing date: 20 July 2013
CRIMEA, Ukraine, 20 July 2013 – The OSCE Youth Summit, organized by the Ukrainian OSCE Chairmanship, started today in the International Children’s Center “Artek” in Crimea, bringing together more than 500 young people from across the OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation...
OSCE promotes parliamentarism among young people in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 16 July 2013
On 15 July 2013 the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan hosted the concluding session of the Youth Model Parliament, an OSCE–supported project...
Young people from both banks of Dniester/Nistru river discuss environmental protection and building trust, with OSCE support
Publishing date: 16 July 2013
An OSCE-supported summer school held from 4 to 14 July 2013 brought together 80 young people from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River in a beach town of Molovata Noua...
Students complete OSCE-supported teaching practice
Publishing date: 13 June 2013
Fourteen future teachers received certificates after completing a training course supported by the OSCE Mission to Skopje at a ceremony on 13 June 2013 in country’s eastern city of Shtip...
Bishkek Water Museum to be opened in September 2013 with OSCE support
Publishing date: 10 June 2013
A ceremony at the Water museum in Bishkek took place in Bishkek on 7 June 2013, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University’s (KNAU). The popular science museum will be officially opened to the public in September 2013 and will be hosted by the KNAU’s former laboratory building. It will be the country’s only museum educating people on water and its effective use...