News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre promotes high-level dialogue on strengthening the role of the Ombudsman in Kazakhstan in preventing torture
Publishing date: 25 March 2011
ASTANA, 25 March 2011 – An OSCE-supported conference on establishing and implementing a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) in Kazakhstan concluded in Astana today...
OSCE Chairmanship welcomes comprehensive reform initiative in Morocco, outlines potential for OSCE support
Publishing date: 25 March 2011
VIENNA, 25 March 2011 – The Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council, Ambassador Renatas Norkus, speaking on behalf of the Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship, today welcomed the comprehensive democratic reform initiative announced by His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, earlier this month, and underscored the readiness of the OSCE community to share its own experience and expertise in democratic reform processes with the Organization’s Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation...
Attempts to undermine the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Prosecutor's Office of BiH harm all people in BiH
Publishing date: 25 March 2011
SARAJEVO, 25 March 2011 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina has noted with increasing concern that the role and purpose of BiH’s state judicial institutions have been openly called into question in recent weeks...
Press release issued by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Publishing date: 25 March 2011
VIENNA, 24 March 2011- The following is a press release issued by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on 10 March. The views expressed in this press release do not necessarily reflect those of the OSCE Chairmanship, nor of all OSCE participating States...
OSCE trains senior border officers from Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia and Tajikistan
Publishing date: 25 March 2011
DUSHANBE, 25 March 2011 – Officers and managers from border, customs and drug control agencies in Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia and Tajikistan successfully completed a one-month Senior Staff course on border security and management at the OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) today...
Statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
Publishing date: 24 March 2011
VIENNA, 24 March 2011 – The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the Russian Federation) were in Vienna on March 23-24, where they briefed the Minsk Group and Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut on their recent and upcoming activities as mediators of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict...
OSCE trains officials to detect and prevent smuggling of hazardous waste
Publishing date: 24 March 2011
KYIV, 24 March 2011 – Detecting and preventing the illegal cross-border trafficking of waste and other hazardous waste in Eastern Europe were the focus of a four-day train-the-trainers workshop that ended in Kyiv today...