News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports discussion on ensuring political and public participation of persons with disabilities in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 November 2020
An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on the rights and opportunities of people with disabilities to participate in political and public life took place on 13 November 2020 in Nur-Sultan...
Food security, election observation, Belarus and Nagorno-Karabakh top agenda of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Standing Committee meeting
Publishing date: 12 November 2020
COPENHAGEN, 12 November 2020 – Meeting in an online format today, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Standing Committee heard a keynote address by David Beasley, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, and discussed OSCE matters...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 270/2020 issued on 12 November 2020
Publishing date: 12 November 2020
Summary The SMM recorded 90 ceasefire violations, including 89 undetermined explosions, in Donetsk region and seven ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded no ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and 14 in Luhansk region. The Mission continued
OSCE Project Co-ordinator facilitates introduction of environmental assessment systems in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 12 November 2020
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, in co-operation with the State Committee on Ecology and Environmental Protection and the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), on 12 November 2020, held the final online workshop on introducing environmental assessment systems in the country. These systems are designed to be in accordance with the UNECE Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in a Transboundary Context and its Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)...
OSCE organizes online seminar on energy diplomacy in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 12 November 2020
Best practices in developing strategies in the area of energy diplomacy were shared during an OSCE-organized online seminar that took place on 11 and 12 November 2020 in Ashgabat...
OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan trains law enforcement on cybercrime investigation in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 12 November 2020
A four-day online training seminar on investigation practices of cybercrimes concluded on 12 November 2020 in Nur-Sultan. The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, in co-operation with the Law Enforcement Academy under the Prosecutor General’s office/Hub to Counter Global Threats, organized the event...
Press Statement of Special Representative Grau after the regular Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 11 November 2020
Publishing date: 11 November 2020
KYIV, 11 November 2020 – 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: