News and press releases

VIENNA, 6 June 2011 – The OSCE and its Lithuanian Chairmanship today launched a photo competition to raise awareness of the importance of sustainable transport and energy...

The OSCE Office in Yerevan supported an international conference to discuss solutions to environmental threats. The conference took place on 31 May 2011 in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

Participants in an OSCE Chairmanship-organized workshop held in Vienna on 30 May discussed the potential of economic and environmental activities to effectively build confidence and trust...

Experts and policy makers from Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine gathered on May 26, 2011 in Kyiv to discuss how food security in the region could be affected by climate change and what measures their governments should start implementing...

RABAT, 26 May 2011- The Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, today concluded a two-day visit to Morocco, stressing that the OSCE's institutions are ready to consider requests for support for the country's ongoing reform efforts...

More than 40 officials and experts on water energy discussed on 24 May better utilization of hydropower as a step forward in economic development during a seminar in Dushanbe supported by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the Tajik-Norwegian Small-scale Hydro Power Initiative (SHP)...

Participants of a meeting held in Bishkek on 23 May to mark ten years of an OSCE-supported Trans-boundary Water Management Commission between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, summed up the results achieved under the initiative and charted the way forward.