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Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 22 January 2015
Publishing date: 23 January 2015
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). The SMM saw the aftermath of a shelling incident in Donetsk. The SMM witnessed many instances of heavy artillery fire and military movements...
OSCE PA human rights Chair expresses concern about sentencing of Tajikistani lawyer
Publishing date: 23 January 2015
COPENHAGEN, 23 January 2015 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today expressed concern about the sentencing of prominent Tajikistani lawyer and opposition figure Shukhrat Kudratov and the state of civil and political liberties in the country...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports opening of Common Contact Centre to fight transnational threats
Publishing date: 23 January 2015
The OSCE-supported Common Contact Centre at Blace border crossing point was officially opened on 23 January 2014. The Centre will contribute to fighting transnational organized crime through strengthening and sustaining the country’s existing cross-border co-operation with neighbouring Kosovo...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 21 January 2015
Publishing date: 23 January 2015
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). The Russian Federation Armed Forces representative at the JCCC expressed the intention of moving out of Debaltseve due to the deteriorating security situation. The SMM visited the crossing point in Uspenka, at the border between Ukraine and the Russian Federation...
Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), 22 January 2015: Shelling Incident on Kuprina Street in Donetsk City
Publishing date: 22 January 2015
Content type: Spot report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
At 08:40hrs on 22 January, the “Emergency Services Department” of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”) informed the SMM of an alleged shelling incident – involving multiple fatalities – at 42 Kuprina Street, 4.4km south-south-west of city-centre Donetsk.
OSCE Chairperson’s Personal Representatives on tolerance in country visit to France
Publishing date: 22 January 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
PARIS, 22 January 2015- The Personal Representatives of the Chairperson-in-Office on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination conducted a country visit to France from 19-21 January 2015 – their first joint visit under the 2015 OSCE Chairmanship of Serbia...
OSCE Representative denounces conviction of independent journalist and blogger in Russia
Publishing date: 22 January 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media