News and press releases

VIENNA, 11 March 1998-- At a special session of the Permanent Council this morning, the 54 OSCE States decided to increase their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis in Kosovo...

WARSAW, 4 March 1998-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE with the French, Russian and American Co-Chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group. They exchanged views on possible further steps aimed at facilitating peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflic

WARSAW, 2 March 1998-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek, is deeply shocked and disturbed by the most recent unrest in Kosovo...

WARSAW, 24 February 1998-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE is deeply concerned by the unrest and senseless violence in the Albanian city of Shkodra.

VIENNA, 20 February 1998-- The First Conference to review the implementation of the Agreement on Confidence- and Security-Building...

VIENNA, 17 February 1998-- Around 65 Parliamentarians representing 48 OSCE Participating States will gather in Vienna this week for an annual meeting at OSCE headquarters. The...

VIENNA, 12 February 1998-- On Thursday, 12 February, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of France, Hubert Védrine, will address the Permanent Council Meeting of the OSCE. He...

WARSAW, 10 February 1998-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek, condemned last night's assassination attempt...

VIENNA, 28 January 1998-- Some 350 representatives from the Armed Forces of 54 OSCE States gathered in the Hofburg Congress Centre from 26 to 28 January for the third OSCE seminar on Defence Policies and Military Doctrines.

WARSAW, 21 January 1998-- The Ministers of the Troika of the OSCE, the Foreign Ministers of Norway and Poland and the Permanent Secretary of State of Denmark, met today in Warsaw. They had on their...

VIENNA, 15 January 1998-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek, outlined the priorities of the 1998 Polish Chairmanship at today's meeting of...

The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek, issued the following statement from Warsaw today: The OSCE Chairman-in-Office is...

THE HAGUE, 31 December 1997--The brutal way in which the police dispersed a peaceful student demonstration in Kosovo yesterday gives rise to deep concern.

VIENNA, 11 December 1997-- The Permanent Council of the OSCE today decided to extend the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina until 31...

VIENNA, 9 December 1997-- The OSCE Technical Assessment Mission for the re-run of the Presidential Elections in Serbia issued a Preliminary Report in Belgrade today. If you are interested in receiving a copy of the report, please contact:

VIENNA, 21 November 1997-- The Parties to the Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control have significantly reduced the level of their arms holdings...

VIENNA, 6 November 1997-- The Permanent Council of the OSCE yesterday decided on the mandate for the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media...

WARSAW, 11 November 1997-- The Foreign Minister of Poland, Bronislaw Geremek will open the biannual OSCE Implementation Meeting tomorrow in Warsaw. The three-week Meeting of...

VIENNA, 6 November 1997-- The Permanent Council of the OSCE yesterday decided on the mandate for the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, as called for by the OSCE Lisbon Summit Meeting in December 1996.

WARSAW, 31 October 1997-- The Ministers of the Troika of the OSCE, the Foreign Ministers of Poland, Switzerland and Denmark met today in Warsaw. The Ministers discussed prospects for the Copenhagen...

VIENNA, 27 October 1997- The final technical report on the 21 September Parliamentary Election and the 21 September and 5 October Presidential Election in the Republic of Serbia is available at the OSCE Secretariat, by request.

THE HAGUE, 20 October 1997- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Max van der Stoel, issued the following statement on Slovakia today: I have...

PODGORICA, 21 October 1997-- The OSCE Election Observation Mission maintained a strong presence for the second round of this election held on 19 October.

ROME, 17 October 1997-- At an international conference in Rome on Albania, Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini opened the meeting saying: "The emergency...

VIENNA, 26 September 1997--The Permanent Council of the OSCE today decided to supervise the elections for the Republika Srpska Assembly and other elections to be held in Republika Srpska at a later date.

BELGRADE, 22 September 1997-- The OSCE Observation Mission, which included the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, issued a preliminary report today based on the findings of its election...

COPENHAGEN, 19 September 1997-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE has today informed the authorities in Belgrade that he intends to appoint Mr. Felipe Gonzalez as his Personal Representative for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for a period not exceed

VIENNA, 18 September 1997--The OSCE Permanent Council decided to establish an OSCE Advisory and Monitoring Group in Belarus. According to its mandate, the Advisory and Monitoring Group will assist the Belarusian authorities in promoting democratic instit

VIENNA, 11 September 1997-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen, and the...

VIENNA, 8 September 1997-- Prime Minister Fatos Nano of Albania will travel to Vienna on 9-10 September to meet with the OSCE Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office for Albania, Dr....

VIENNA/SARAJEVO, 5 September 1997-- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is coordinating the international election observation for the 13-14 September municipal elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

COPENHAGEN, 2 September 1997-- The Ministers of the Troika of the OSCE, the Foreign Ministers of Switzerland and Denmark and the Under-Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs of Poland met today in Copenhagen and issued the following statement:

WARSAW, 28 August 1997-- The OSCE will send up to 40 long-term election observers to monitor the election campaign for the 21 September presidential and parliamentary elections in Serbia. An...

COPENHAGEN, 22 August 1997-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen, issued the following statement in Copenhagen today on the OSCE observation of the upcoming elections in the Republic of Montenegro:

COPENHAGEN, 18 August 1997--The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen, issued the following statement in Copenhagen today on the OSCE observation of the upcoming elections in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY

COPENHAGEN, 5 August 1997-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Niels Helveg Petersen, has today issued in Copenhagen the following statement on the situation in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia:

ROME, 31 July 1997-- The Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office for Albania, Dr. Franz Vranitzky, today re-emphasised the commitment of the...

VIENNA, 16 July 1997-- The Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office for Albania, Dr. Franz Vranitzky, addressed a session of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council in...

VIENNA, 15 July 1997-- The OSCE has received a generous pledge of $500,000 from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a contribution toward the OSCE fund for the...

SKOPJE, 13 July 1997- The following statement was released today by the OSCE High Commissioner on National...

COPENHAGEN, 3 July 1997-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen, expressed deep concern with the latest developments in Albania.

VIENNA, 27 June 1997-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE welcomes the reinforced and extended the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Croatia.

VIENNA, 23 June 1997- On 20 June 1997, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Mr. Ivan Antonovich, and the Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and...

VIENNA, 18 June 1997- The OSCE Ministerial Troika, the Foreign Ministers of Poland, Switzerland and Denmark, met today in Vienna and issued the following statement: On March 27...

VIENNA, 18 June 1997- The Ministers of the Troika of the OSCE, the Foreign Ministers of Poland, Switzerland and Denmark met today in Vienna and issued the...

COPENHAGEN, 10 June 1997-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen has appointed former U.S. Senator Paul Simon as the OSCE Special Co-ordinator for the monitoring of the Croatian Presidential elections.

VIENNA, 9 June 1997-- The Fifth Meeting of the OSCE Economic Forum will convene on 11-13 June at the Czernin Palace in Prague. The overall theme this year is "Market Economy and the...

VIENNA, 22 May 1997-- This letter was sent by the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office for Albania, former Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Franz Vranitzky, to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania, Mr. Bashkim Fino,...

VIENNA, 20 May 1997-- The Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office, former Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Franz Vranitzky, issued the following statement today: Faced...

VIENNA, 13 May 1997-- The Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office, former Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Franz Vranitzky, issued the following statement today: Over the last few months the OSCE...