News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairman welcomes release of prisoners in Belarus
Publishing date: 22 August 2008
HELSINKI, 22 August 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, welcomed today the Belarusian authorities' release of prisoners Aleksandr Kozulin, Andrey Kim, and Sergei Parsyukevich...
OSCE Chairman reaffirms Organization's commitment to stabilize post-conflict situation in South Caucasus
Publishing date: 22 August 2008
TBILISI, 22 August 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finland's Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, said today that the Organization was strongly committed to helping stabilize the current situation in Georgia...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator visits Ukraine's Zaporizhya region to assess projects
Publishing date: 21 August 2008
ZAPORIZHYA, Ukraine, 21 August 2008- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Ambassador Lubomir Kopaj, is visiting Zaporizhya region this week to evaluate the effectiveness of existing OSCE projects and discuss developing new ones...
OSCE Office supports training on conflict prevention in Kyrgyz penitentiary facilities
Publishing date: 21 August 2008
JALAL ABAD, Kyrgyzstan, 21 August 2008- Methods of conflict prevention in detention facilities was the focus of a training course that ended in Jalal Abad today...
OSCE Chairman welcomes OSCE States' decision for up to 100 monitors to Georgia
Publishing date: 19 August 2008
BRUSSELS, 19 August 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, issued the following statement on the OSCE Permanent Council's decision to increase the number of monitors to the Mission to Georgia by up to 100...
OSCE States agree up to 100 monitors to Georgia
Publishing date: 19 August 2008
VIENNA, 19 August 2008- The 56 OSCE participating States agreed to increase the number of OSCE monitors in the Mission to Georgia to 100 at a special meeting of the Permanent Council in Vienna today...
OSCE Secretary General visits Russia's North Ossetia
Publishing date: 17 August 2008
VIENNA, 18 August 2008- At the request of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut was in Vladikavkaz on Saturday and Sunday to meet refugees from South Ossetia and assess the humanitarian situation first-hand...