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OSCE Chairman-in-Office Osmani visits OSCE Mission to Skopje
Publishing date: 25 January 2023
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
SKOPJE, 25 January 2023 — OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia Bujar Osmani visited the OSCE Mission to Skopje today.
Enhancing social re-use of confiscated assets in Serbia focus of OSCE workshop
Publishing date: 25 January 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
On 24 January, the OSCE organized the third National Workshop on Social Re-use of Confiscated Assets in Serbia. The event brought together representatives from the Ministry of Justice, the Republic’s Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, civil society and other international organizations.
OSCE facilitates exchange on asset recovery between German Federal Criminal Police Office and Serbian Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime
Publishing date: 25 January 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
Prosecutors working on organized crime and asset recovery cases in Serbia and a judge from the Belgrade High Court visited the German Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden for a study visit on 24 and 25 January.
ODIHR monitoring for fairness and transparency of trials in Kazakhstan will continue in 2023
Publishing date: 23 January 2023
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
WARSAW, 23 January 2023 – Following the demonstrations that took place across Kazakhstan in January 2022, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is continuing to monitor trials in the country to assess their conduct and contribute to their overall transparency and fairness
OSCE Mission to Montenegro congratulates journalists on the Day of Journalists
Publishing date: 23 January 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
In congratulating journalists in Montenegro, noting 23 January commemorates the inaugural publication in 1871, of “Crnogorac” (Montenegrin), the weekly magazine for politics and culture in Cetinje, Dominique Waag, Head of OSCE Mission to Montenegro, said: “Celebrating this day reminds us of the importance of investigative journalism in democracies.”
Statement by OSCE Mission to Skopje on compromised Facebook page
Publishing date: 21 January 2023
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
The Mission to Skopje’s official Facebook page has been recently hacked.
Further information on OSCE vehicles filmed in Donbas
Publishing date: 20 January 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
On 15 January 2023, reports with video footage and images appeared on social media showing OSCE-branded vehicles being transported on trucks through the Russian Federation border checkpoint of Izvaryne into the Luhansk region of Ukraine. These vehicles had been temporarily stored in a parking