News and press releases

Summary The SMM recorded three ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, the Mission recorded ten ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. The Mission followed up on reports of a man who died from the explosion of

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan held an online event to mark 45 years since the signing of the Helsinki Final Act and the creation of what is now the OSCE on 28 August 2020.

A three-day training seminar on countering cybercrime concluded on 28 August 2020 in Nur-Sultan. The event was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan in co-operation with the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the Law Enforcement Academy under the Prosecutor General’s office/Hub to Counter Global Threats.

VIENNA, 28 August 2020 – “To move forward will require mutual understanding and co-operation,” said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Prime Minister and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of Albania, Edi Rama, addressing the OSCE Permanent Council’s special meeting today in Vienna on the situation in Belarus following the Presidential election on 9 August 2020...

Summary The SMM recorded ten ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and none in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, the Mission recorded ten ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and one in Luhansk region. The Mission lost spatial control of one of its mini-unmanned aerial vehicles,

On 27 August at 06:23 (Moscow time), the ninety-sixth Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of six vehicles were checked by Russian Federation border guards and customs officers prior to their crossing into Ukraine. All six vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 11:19 on 27 August...

An OSCE-supported half-day training webinar on the role of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in investigating suspicious transactions concluded in Nur-Sultan on 27 August 2020.