News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Smuggling and illegal trade in art and cultural property focus of OSCE-supported training course in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 29 July 2019
A two-day training course on the fight against smuggling and illegal trade in art and cultural property concluded on 26 July 2019 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The event was organized jointly by the OSCE Mission to BiH, the Centre for the Fight against Trafficking in Art and the Agency for Education and Professional Training of the BiH Ministry of Security...
Former OSCE Chair Serbia remains key partner in the region says OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Lajčák during visit to Belgrade
Publishing date: 4 June 2019
BELGRADE, 4 June 2019 – Visiting Serbia today as part of his commitment to visit all OSCE field missions, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, together with First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dačić and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Andrea Orizio, opened the High-Level Discussion on Security Sector Governance and Reform (SSG/R) in South-Eastern Europe in Belgrade...
Serbia’s Foreign Minister Dačić, OSCE Chairperson Lajčák, Head of OSCE Mission Orizio open regional event on security sector governance and reform
Publishing date: 4 June 2019
BELGRADE, 4 June 2019 – Only an inclusive, accountable and democratically controlled security sector with full respect for human rights, gender equality and the rule of law can effectively provide security to a state and its citizens, said speakers at a high-level discussion in Belgrade today ahead of a two-day regional meeting organized by the Slovak OSCE Chairmanship and the OSCE Secretariat on security sector governance and reform (SSG/R)...
OSCE donates technical equipment to training centre of Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defence of Tajikistan
Publishing date: 15 April 2019
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe donated computer equipment to the Training Centre of the Committee of Emergency Situation and Civil Defence of Tajikistan on 12 April 2019 in Dushanbe...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina organizes donor visit to ammunition testing laboratory in Doboj
Publishing date: 11 April 2019
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the BiH Ministry of Defence organized a visit to the new ammunition testing laboratory in a Technical Workshop for Repair and Destruction of Ammunition (TROM Doboj) on 11 April 2019 in Doboj...
Introduction to humanitarian mine action systems for experts from Central Asia kicks off in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 4 April 2019
A five-day OSCE regional course, Introduction to Humanitarian Mine Action Systems, started on 1 April 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE SMM Chief Monitor Apakan and OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine Villadsen highlight the importance of mine action in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 4 April 2019
KYIV, 4 April 2019 – On the occasion of International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, observed to raise awareness about mines and progress towards their eradication, the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ertugrul Apakan, and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Henrik Villadsen, highlighted the importance of mine action in the conflict-affected areas of eastern Ukraine...