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Presidential statement on situation in Turkey: Grossruck calls for respect of peaceful expression, proportionate response to violence
Publishing date: 19 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 19 June 2013-- OSCE PA President Wolfgang Grossruck today released the following statement regarding the situation in Turkey, which is scheduled to host the Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly beginning 29 June in Istanbul.
OSCE organizes seminar on civil society development in Transdniestria
Publishing date: 19 June 2013
The OSCE Mission to Moldova, together with the Tiraspol-based non-governmental organization, Independent Institute for Law and Civil Society, organized on 18 June 2013 a seminar for civil society in Transdniestria to discuss challenges and best practices in civil society development from both the local and regional context...
Collective effort, political commitment required to address conflicts, transnational threats, say participants at OSCE Annual Security Review Conference
Publishing date: 19 June 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Forum for Security Co-operation
Finding common responses to security threats and challenges as the Organization moves towards a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security community was the topic of the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference that started in Vienna on 19 June 2013...
Trainers in Ukraine prepared by OSCE will teach social service providers to assist trafficking victims
Publishing date: 19 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
KYIV, 19 June 2013- Twenty-four trainers were prepared to upgrade skills and knowledge of social services staff, including state officials and NGO activists, in providing assistance to victims of human trafficking at an event in Kyiv, organised by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) from 17 to 19 June 2013...
OSCE trains border staff in Kazakhstan on anti-crime and terrorism strategies
Publishing date: 19 June 2013
Some 20 border and customs officials from Kazakhstan were trained in best practices to combat organized crime and terrorism during a three-day seminar that began on 19 June 2013 in Aktau, Mangystau Region...
OSCE Centre supports better extra-judicial dispute resolution, reconciliation in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 June 2013
Development of the mediation practice in criminal and civil processes in Kazakhstan was the main topic of an international conference held in Astana on 18 June 2013 with the OSCE support...
Joint statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, by the Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Countries
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
ENNISKILLEN, United Kingdom, 18 June 2013- Joint Statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict by Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, and Franсois Hollande, President of the French Republic...