News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports study visit of Kazakhstan’s delegation to the EU Emergency Response Centre
Publishing date: 17 November 2015
A group of five high-level officials from Kazakhstan’s Committee of Emergency Situations of Interior Ministry concluded an OSCE-supported study visit to the European Commission’s Emergency Response Co-ordination Centre (ERCC) in Brussels on 17 November 2015...
OSCE Programme Office in Astana promotes regional Green Bridge Partnership Programme
Publishing date: 13 November 2015
ASTANA, 13 November 2015 – An OSCE-supported international conference on the Green Bridge Partnership Programme (GBPP) as platform for promoting best practices and innovations in a green economy took place today in Astana, Kazakhstan...
OSCE-supported workshop focuses on environmental challenges in Armenia
Publishing date: 10 November 2015
The OSCE Office in Yerevan in partnership with Yerevan State University’s Centre on Sustainable Development organized a workshop on problems and solutions related to sustainable use of natural resources and environmental planning in Armenia on 10 November 2015 in the Armenian capital...
OSCE supports energy efficiency workshop for secondary school teachers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 9 November 2015
An OSCE-supported training seminar on the topic of energy efficiency for school teachers took place on 9 November 2015 in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. The event was the last in a series of three sessions that trained over 300 secondary school teachers from Astana, Almaty and the Eastern Kazakhstan region...
OSCE Secretary General meets Netherlands Foreign Minister Koenders and addresses climate change challenges at Hague Conference
Publishing date: 3 November 2015
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier visited The Hague from 2 to 3 November 2015, where he addressed the Planetary Security Conference on ‘Peace and Cooperation in Times of Climate Change and Global Environmental Challenges’ organized by the Dutch Foreign Affairs Ministry...
We need to address the link between climate change and security, say participants at OSCE Security Days event
Publishing date: 28 October 2015
VIENNA, 28 October 2015 – There is an urgent need to deepen understanding of the security implications of climate change and to recognize the security benefits of climate change mitigation and adaption, said OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier today as he opened an OSCE Security Days event in Vienna devoted to the unprecedented impacts and unpredictable risks posed by this global challenge...
OSCE hands over a software programme for safe fire-fighting in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
Publishing date: 22 October 2015
CHORNOBYL, Ukraine, 22 October 2015- A software programme for estimating radiation doses in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone for Ukrainian firefighters engaged in suppressing local wildfires was today handed over to the State Enterprise “Chornobyl Spetskombinat” by the OSCE...