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Experts discuss women’s role in conflict cycle at OSCE security conference
Publishing date: 19 June 2013
Vienna, 19 June 2013 – On the margins of the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference, the Organization’s Gender Section today held a discussion on why women can make a difference in all stages of the conflict cycle...
Libya applies to become OSCE partner
Publishing date: 17 June 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
Libyan Foreign Minister, Mohamed Imhammed Abdul-Aziz submitted his country's application to become an OSCE Partner for Co-operation during the Security Days conference in Vienna on 17 June 2013...
Security Days event starts with calls for frank and open discussion on security
Publishing date: 17 June 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
Opening the two-day Security Days conference on 17 June 2013, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier called for a broad and open discussion on security issues in the OSCE region and invited members of academia, think tanks and civil society to share their ideas...
Diplomatic community must take responsibility for prevention of trafficking for domestic servitude, says OSCE Special Representative in Kyiv
Publishing date: 14 June 2013
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, at a workshop in Kyiv held from 12 to 13 June 2013 urged the Organization’s participating States to take concrete steps to prevent the little-known phenomenon of trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households...
OSCE Secretary General, in Kyiv, meets President, Foreign Minister of Ukraine
Publishing date: 11 June 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier visited Kyiv from 10 to 11 June 2013 where he met with President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara...
Preventing terrorist use of explosives and chemicals discussed at OSCE meeting in Sarajevo
Publishing date: 5 June 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on 5 June 2013 a roundtable meeting in Sarajevo on the implementation of preventive aspects of the International Terrorist Bombings Convention...
Tajik customs officials learn from Finnish experience in OSCE-organized study visit
Publishing date: 31 May 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Economic activities, Border management
A five-day study visit to Finland for senior customs and trade officials from Tajikistan ended in Helsinki on 31 May 2013...