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Confronting anti-Gypsyism is responsibility of mainstream society, needs strong political leadership, say participants at OSCE Chairmanship event
Publishing date: 6 September 2016
Content type: Press release
What we do: Roma and Sinti
BERLIN, 6 September 2016 – Confronting increasing manifestations of racism and xenophobia against Roma and Sinti and strengthening coalition-building among political leaders to counter discrimination are the focus of an OSCE high-level event in Berlin today...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Steinmeier and OSCE Secretary General Zannier open 10th Conference for German staff in International Organizations
Publishing date: 9 June 2016
Berlin, 9 June 2016 – In his opening remarks at the 10th Conference for German staff in International Organizations, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier paid tribute to Germany’s support for to Organization’s work: “Germany’s contribution to the OSCE is exemplary, both in terms of political and financial support, as well as through the provision of qualified seconded experts who make up the greater part of our staff.
Trilateral Contact Group statement on ceasefire as of 1 September, 2016
Publishing date: 1 September 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
MINSK, 1 September 2016- A Trilateral Contact Group meeting by video-conference took place in Kyiv today 01 September 2016 with the purpose to confirm the ceasefire announced and observed from 00.00, 01 September. Video-conference was also attended by SMM Chief Monitor Ambassador Apakan as well as RF and Ukrainian representatives in JCCC – Generals Medvedskiy and Kremenetskiy accordingly...
Informal OSCE Ministerial discussions focused on organization's future agenda
Publishing date: 1 September 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
POTSDAM, Germany, 1 September 2016 – “It is my firm belief that we must work together to face the common threats of our times and to make use of the OSCE more effectively as a central platform for dialogue,” said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the end of the Informal Meeting of OSCE Foreign Ministers in Potsdam today. “At a time when we are facing grave differences of opinion and a loss of trust in the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian area, we as political leaders have a duty to listen to each other and to re-engage in genuine dialogue,” Steinmeier added...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier welcomes agreement on early elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Publishing date: 1 September 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BERLIN, 1 September 2016- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, welcomed the agreement on early parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and issued the following statement today in Berlin:...
69th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 31 August 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
ERGNETI, 31 August 2016- The 69th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place today in Ergneti. The meeting was co-facilitated by Kęstutis Jankauskas, the Head of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and Ambassador Guenther Baechler, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus...
Statement by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Germany’s Foreign Minister Steinmeier ahead of the Informal OSCE Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Potsdam
Publishing date: 31 August 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BERLIN, 31 August 2016 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier today issued the following statement ahead of the 1 September Informal Meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Potsdam...
OSCE Special Representative Erler and Secretary General Zannier, at European Parliament Committee, highlight fields of co-operation with the EU
Publishing date: 30 August 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BRUSSELS, 30 August 2016- Gernot Erler, Special Representative of the Federal Government of Germany for the OSCE Chairmanship, and Lamberto Zannier, Secretary General of the OSCE, today spoke about OSCE-EU co-operation during an address to the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs in Brussels...
Declaration by Ambassador Martin Sajdik after today's meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk
Publishing date: 26 August 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
MINSK, 26 August 2016- Ambassador Martin Sajdik, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group on the implementation of the peace plan in the East of Ukraine, made the following press statement after today's meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group and its four Working Groups in Minsk today...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier on recent incidents targeting and restricting the freedom of movement of the OSCE Monitors in Ukraine
Publishing date: 24 August 2016
Content type: Press release
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BERLIN, 24 August 2016 – Following recent incidents targeting patrol teams of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) in the country’s east, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, issued the following statement...