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OSCE holds workshop series for criminal justice specialists dealing with asset recovery in North Macedonia
Publishing date: 25 January 2021
The OSCE, in close co-operation with the Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors of North Macedonia, concluded on 22 January 2021, a three-day online training course on international co-operation and mutual legal assistance in asset recovery for fourteen public prosecutors and judges...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 17/2021 issued on 23 January 2021
Publishing date: 23 January 2021
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary The Mission recorded 45 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 39 ceasefire violations in the region. The SMM recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it also recorded no ceasefire violations in the
OSCE Mission to Montenegro congratulates journalists on country’s Day of Journalists
Publishing date: 23 January 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Media freedom and development
Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Maryse Daviet, congratulated the journalists in the country the Day of Journalists, 23 January, which marks the publication of the first printed newspaper in Cetinje in 1871...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 16/2021 issued on 22 January 2021
Publishing date: 22 January 2021
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary The SMM recorded 39 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded seven ceasefire violations in the region. The Mission recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region, as in the previous reporting period. The SMM continued monitoring the
Joint Statement of OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OHR, Embassies of USA, UK and Embassy of Sweden in BiH, as chair of OSCE
Publishing date: 22 January 2021
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 22 January 2021 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Office of the High Representative (OHR), the Embassies of the US and UK, and the Embassy of Sweden in BiH, as chair of the OSCE, welcome the decision of the Central Election Commission to annul the elections in several polling stations in Doboj and Srebrenica, having detected serious irregularities in the election processes. The decision of the CEC will help ensure the integrity of the elections and restore citizens’ confidence in election administration. We urge relevant authorities to investigate the reported allegations of electoral fraud promptly.
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media meets with Ambassador of the Russian Federation
Publishing date: 22 January 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Teresa Ribeiro, met today, 22 January 2021, with Ambassador Alexander Lukashevich to discuss the situation of freedom of expression and freedom of the media in the Russian Federation and the wider OSCE region.
Press Statement of Special Representative Grau after the regular Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 21 January 2021
Publishing date: 21 January 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KYIV, 21 January 2021 — The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Heidi Grau, made the following statement to the press after the regular meetings of the TCG and its Working Groups held through video conferencing: