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The OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized workshops to strengthen the skills of parliamentary staff to support drafting of legislation and amendments within committees on 21 and 22 November and on 3 and 4 December 2019 in Podgorica. The attendees examined the legislative drafting and amending process and discussed the practice and function of the Rules of Procedure of their parliament as compared with the practice in other parliaments.

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in partnership with the Department for Gender Equality within the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, organized gender equality awareness-raising training for journalists on 2 and 3 December 2019 in Podgorica.

SARAJEVO, 9 December 2019 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kathleen Kavalec, and the President of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) of BiH, Milan Tegeltija, signed today a Memorandum of Understanding on the handover of the War Crimes Case Map...

VIENNA, 9 December 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, sent a legal review to the Government of Albania on the latest amendments to the Law on Audiovisual Media in Albania and the Law on Electronic Communications...

Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The SMM observed craters in a residential area of Zaitseve. The Mission received a Note Verbale from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and a letter from the

BRATISLAVA, 6 December 2019 – The OSCE’s participating States need to show more political will and commitment to real dialogue and diplomacy to effectively address the multitude of, and increasingly transnational, security challenges facing the region, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister, Miroslav Lajčák as he closed the 26th OSCE Ministerial Council today in Bratislava. “There is a compelling case for co-operative security,” he said...

BRATISLAVA, 6 December 2019 – On the margins of the 26th Ministerial Council, the Slovak Chair, its Special Representatives on Youth and Security, Spain and Albania, supported by the OSCE, organized an event on young voices for a safer future in Bratislava.