News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Head of Mission to Skopje Suomalainen meets Prime Minister Zaev, offers support in reform process
Publishing date: 9 June 2017
SKOPJE, 9 June 2017 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje Nina Suomalainen met today in Skopje with the newly elected Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and congratulated on his election as the Prime Minister...
OSCE supports training seminar on presumption of innocence for practicing journalists and journalism students
Publishing date: 9 June 2017
The OSCE Office in Tajikistan’s Rule of Law and Media units held an interactive training seminar for 18 journalism professionals and aspiring professionals in the Varzob region outside of Dushanbe, on 8 and 9 June 2017...
OSCE organizes train-the-trainer course in Uzbekistan on detecting forged documents and imposters
Publishing date: 9 June 2017
A 10-day train-the-trainer course on the detection of forged documents and identification of imposters concluded in Tashkent on 9 June 2017. The course, organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan with support from the Transnational Threats Department’s Travel Document Security Programme, was attended by 19 officers of relevant departments of the State Border Protection and National Security Services and 12 officers of the Internal Affairs Ministry of Uzbekistan...
Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 7 June 2017
Publishing date: 8 June 2017
In Donetsk region the Mission recorded more ceasefire violations compared with the previous reporting period. In Luhansk region the flare-up in ceasefire violations recorded by the SMM in the previous reporting period continued in the same areas – Sentianivka, Krymske and Zholobok – west and north-west of Luhansk, and involved multiple launch rocket systems. The use of weapons proscribed by the Minsk agreements reached a level last recorded by the Mission on 23 March 2017...
Final report on Serbia’s presidential election by OSCE/ODIHR reiterates need for comprehensive review of legislation, recommends measures to improve conduct of elections
Publishing date: 8 June 2017
An inclusive and comprehensive revision of Serbia’s legal framework for elections is among the measures recommended by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in its final report on the country’s 2 April 2017 presidential election. To enhance the conduct of elections,
OSCE parliamentarians in Turkey note security challenges, call for continued attention to democratic institutions
Publishing date: 8 June 2017
ANKARA, 8 June 2017 – A senior delegation of parliamentarians from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly today concluded a series of meetings in Istanbul and Ankara, and noted the extraordinary challenges faced by Turkey, including from terrorism, large migration flows, and the aftermath of the July 2016 failed coup...