Skip navigation

0Meta Navigation

× Close search

Navigation

Home Newsroom Press releases
Newsroom

News and press releases

Subscribe to News Updates

News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.

Peacekeepers begin withdrawal of armoured vehicles in Moldova

Publishing date: 14 August 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
CHISINAU, 14 August 2003- Moldovan and Transdniestrian military forces today took their first demilitarization steps in many years by together withdrawing 37 armoured vehicles from the Security Zone, the area separating the two sides since the...

OSCE's "unique police-training expertise" fulfils its role in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Publishing date: 30 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti
SKOPJE, 30 July 2003- With the graduation today of 350 multi-ethnic police cadets at the Idrizovo Police Academy in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the OSCE has completed a key part of the task entrusted to it under the Ohrid agreement...

US grant helps Georgian Border Guards and OSCE to enhance co-operation in border monitoring

Publishing date: 29 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
TBILISI, 29 July 2003- Better equipment for patrolling the mountainous Chechen, Ingush and Dagestan segments of the Georgian-Russian border was handed over to the Head of the Georgian border guards today at the OSCE Mission's headquarters. The...

OSCE launches project in Ukraine to help former soldiers adjust to civilian life

Publishing date: 17 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
KYIV, 17 July 2003- The Ukrainian Defence Ministry and the office of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine today launched a joint programme to help former military personnel adjust to civilian life. The "Social adaptation of former military...

OSCE CiO says Moldova peacekeeping still in exploratory phase

Publishing date: 17 July 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
THE HAGUE, 17 July 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has labelled as "premature" recent reports in the media about the character and composition of a possible future peace consolidation mission

OSCE Security Conference considers fresh options

Publishing date: 27 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Forum for Security Co-operation, Permanent Council
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 26 June 2003- The OSCE's first-ever Annual Security Review Conference closed yesterday with its main aim successfully met- that of identifying a range of practical options for the Organization to address the new threats and challenges to...

OSCE inaugurates Annual Security Review Conference in Vienna

Publishing date: 25 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 25 June 2003- Opening the OSCE's first-ever Annual Security Review Conference, Ambassador Daan Everts, Head of the OSCE Task Force of the Netherlands Chairmanship, called for the meeting to produce practical tasks and recommendations...