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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Youth can be driver of OSCE Mediterranean Partnership, participants highlight at 2016 OSCE Mediterranean Conference
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
VIENNA, 6 October 2016 – The OSCE Mediterranean Partnership is growing and youth should be a lead actor to take dialogue and co-operation forward, participants emphasized in the 2016 OSCE Mediterranean conference, which concluded today in Vienna...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30, 5 October 2016
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
The SMM recorded a similar number of ceasefire violations in Donetsk region as in the previous reporting period. In Luhansk region the number of ceasefire violations recorded, all during daytime, increased significantly for the second consecutive day. The SMM followed up on reports of shelling in Makiivka. The Mission continued to monitor the disengagement process in Stanytsia Luhanska, Zolote and Petrivske; the SMM was restricted in its freedom of movement in all three areas. The SMM monitored the situation of civilians living near the contact line and of civilians queuing at entry-exit checkpoints. The SMM visited two border areas in Kharkiv. The Mission monitored the situation of internally displaced persons in Odessa and Donetsk regions...
OSCE Mission to Moldova promotes discussions on the application of the State Innovative Policy in the regions
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
On 4 October 2016, the OSCE Mission to Moldova hosted a roundtable discussion on the use of the State Innovative Policy as an instrument of development in the regions, with particular focus on the experience of Moldova’s autonomous region of Gagauzia...
Andrea Orizio takes up duties as Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
BELGRADE, 6 October 2016 – Ambassador Andrea Orizio, an Italian career diplomat, assumed his duties as Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia...
OSCE concludes series of anti-trafficking seminars for law-enforcement officers and social workers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana held the last in a series of five seminars on anti-trafficking practices and procedures on 6 October 2016 in Shymkent, South Kazakhstan Region...
At Brussels Conference on Afghanistan, Director of OSCE Secretary General’s Office Paul Bekkers emphasizes central role of regional organizations’ support for Afghanistan stability
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
“Stability in Afghanistan remains of utmost significance to, and inseparable from the security of the Eurasian continent,” stressed Paul Bekkers, Director of the OSCE Secretary General’s Office at the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan on 5 October 2016....
OSCE supports capacity building in Kazakhstan’s water management sector
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
Promoting international standards in the national water management education was the topic of the OSCE-supported working group meeting for some 20 leading experts from the national water authorities, international organizations, civil society and academia that took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on 6 October 2016...