News and press releases

The SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region including 425 explosions compared with the previous reporting period (670 explosions). The SMM observed no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. It observed damage to civilian infrastructure in Donetsk region and facilitated and monitored adherence to the ceasefire to enable repairs to civilian infrastructure on both sides of the contact line. The SMM observed the presence of unexploded ordnance and also followed up on an uncontrolled detonation near Stanytsia Luhanska bridge...

VIENNA, 16 September 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on Serbian authorities to fully investigate acts of intimidation and threats directed at several journalists...

On the occasion of the Anna Lindh Foundation Advisory Council, the New-Med, an OSCE-supported network of Mediterranean experts, in co-operation with Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, held a seminar on the topic of Redefining Cultural Dialogue in Time of Crisis: a Mediterranean Perspective, on 8 September 2016 in Rome...

KHUJAND, Tajikistan, 16 September 2016 – The next session of the OSCE-organized high-level dialogue on countering human trafficking took place today in Khujand and brought together some 60 participants from state agencies, civil society organizations, academia and the international community, as part of the Office’s support to the Inter-agency Commission on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings under Tajikistan’s Presidential Apparatus...

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro held the first in a series of three training courses for Montenegrin Senior Administration Management of the Parliamentary service, in co-operation with the Parliamentary Department for Human Resources, from 15 to 16 September 2016, in Podgorica...

ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 16 September 2016 – A two-day roundtable to discuss the National Action Plan (NAP) on the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1540 on effective measures against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction concluded today in the village of Bulan Sogottu, Issyk-Kul region...

VIENNA, 16 September 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned a recent physical attack and threats against journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina...