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OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Secretary General call for immediate release of detained OSCE staff in Donetsk and Luhansk
Publishing date: 19 July 2022
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
19 July 2022- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Poland, Zbigniew Rau, and OSCE Secretary General, Helga Maria Schmid, today reiterated their call for the unconditional and immediate release of three national Mission members of the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), detained in Donetsk and Luhansk for more than three months.
Regional security in focus during OSCE Secretary General’s visit to Bucharest
Publishing date: 15 July 2022
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
Bucharest, 15 July 2022 — The OSCE Secretary General, Helga Maria Schmid, today concluded her visit to Bucharest, where she attended the second edition of the Moldova Support Platform conference and met with high-level officials.
OSCE Secretary General Schmid concludes visit to the United Kingdom
Publishing date: 5 July 2022
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
LONDON, 5 July 2022 — The OSCE Secretary General, Helga Maria Schmid, has concluded her visit to the United Kingdom where she met with high-level British and OSCE officials and attended the 29th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA).
OSCE Secretary General condemns use of sexual violence as weapon of war, urges for international support to survivors
Publishing date: 19 June 2022
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 19 June 2022 – Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid called for an urgent end to the use of rape and other sexual crimes as a tactic of war in Ukraine and elsewhere in the OSCE region and beyond.
Joint statement by the OSCE Troika and the OSCE Secretary General
Publishing date: 17 June 2022
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: Troika, OSCE Secretary General
OHRID, 17 June 2022 – We, the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Poland, and North Macedonia, as the previous, current and incoming Chairpersons-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), joined with the OSCE Secretary General in this statement on the occasion of the second edition of the Prespа Forum Dialogue (PFD).
OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid concludes visit to Tajikistan
Publishing date: 8 June 2022
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 8 June 2022 — OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid concluded her two-day visit to Tajikistan.
OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Secretary General announce upcoming closure of Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
Publishing date: 28 April 2022
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
WARSAW/VIENNA, 28 April 2022 –OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Poland Zbigniew Rau and OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid have today announced that the OSCE would take immediate steps to implement the closure of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine.