News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
In Astana, OSCE PA President Muttonen highlights nuclear disarmament as an international priority
Publishing date: 25 August 2017
ASTANA, 25 August 2017 – Building a common security system for the OSCE area based on trust and co-operation is incompatible with national security strategies based on nuclear deterrence, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen said today at the 62nd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Astana, Kazakhstan...
OSCE supports training for journalists on open data and data processing in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 25 August 2017
A two-day OSCE-supported training seminar on data journalism for some 15 journalists across the country concluded on 25 August in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE supports regional trade facilitation and border protection workshop in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 25 August 2017
An OSCE-supported regional workshop on trade facilitation and border protection concluded on 25 August 2017 in Astana. Some 60 officials of Kazakhstan’s Finance Ministry and trade representatives from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan reviewed the challenges and
Spot Report by OSCE Observer Mission: 66th Russian convoy of 28 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point
Publishing date: 24 August 2017
On 24 August 2017 at 06:47 (Moscow time), the sixty-sixth Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 28 vehicles were checked by the Russian Federation border guards and customs services prior to crossing into Ukraine. All of the 28 vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 16:18 on 24 August...
Press Statement of the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ambassador Martin Sajdik after the Meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on 23 August 2017
Publishing date: 24 August 2017
MINSK, 24 August 2017 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its working groups in Minsk on 23 August 2017...
OSCE supports summer camp for child victims of last year’s Dacha-Suu plane crash in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 24 August 2017
The OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek and the National Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan organized a summer camp for 20 affected by the Dacha-Suu plane crash in the village of Kara Oi, in the northern Issyk Kyl region from 17 to 20 August 2017...
OSCE Chief Monitor Ertugrul Apakan welcomes recommitment to ceasefire in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 23 August 2017
KYIV, 23 August 2017 – The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) welcomes the recommitment to ceasefire by the Trilateral Contact Group and other signatories of the Minsk agreements, said Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, the Chief Monitor of the SMM, in a statement today...