News and press releases

At an event in Podgorica held on 24 February 2014, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro presented results of research on the attitudes of citizens’ to the process of mediation as an alternative to resolving legal disputes...

The judicial system and procedures, issues related to judicial independence were the focus of a training seminar organized for media representatives from 15 to 16 February 2014 in Aghveran with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan...

BERN, 16 February 2014- Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, today welcomed the move by opposition protesters to vacate the Kyiv City State Administration Building as another positive development towards de-escalating tensions in Ukraine...

The OSCE Centre in Astana co-organized a study visit of representatives from Kazakhstan to Ljubljana from 11 to 12 February 2014 to learn about the Slovenian experience in implementing the National Preventive Mechanism against torture and ill-treatment (NPM)...

CHISINAU, 11 February 2014 – A delegation of the Gagauzian People’s Assembly headed by Dmitry Konstatinov visited Chisinau today to meet with the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Ambassador Jennifer Brush and other diplomatic missions to discuss the latest political developments in the autonomous territorial unit of Gagauzia, located in southern Moldova...

SARAJEVO, 11 February 2014- The protests of the past few days in Sarajevo, Tuzla, Mostar and other cities across Bosnia and Herzegovina have highlighted serious economic, social and political difficulties in the country, the Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH, Ambassador Fletcher M. Burton, said today...

SOCHI, February 7, 2014 – Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, discussed with Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine, the situation in the country and confirmed the readiness of the OSCE to assist Ukraine in the settlement of the crisis.