News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Receipt of notifications on completion of withdrawal of forces and hardware in Zolote disengagement area
Publishing date: 2 November 2019
On 1 November, the SMM received a letter from the armed formations in non-government-controlled areas of Luhansk region, notifying that they had completed the withdrawal of forces and hardware in the agreed disengagement area near Zolote...
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 260/2019 issued on 2 November 2019
Publishing date: 2 November 2019
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded more ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. A boy was injured due to small-arms fire in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka. The SMM saw damage to a house in Oleksandrivka. The Mission observed further withdrawal of forces
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 259/2019 issued on 1 November 2019
Publishing date: 1 November 2019
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. It recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. The SMM saw a crater in the yard of a residential house in Zolote-5/Mykhailivka. The SMM observed further withdrawal of forces
Using passenger data exchange systems to address risks posed by returning foreign terrorist fighters explored at OSCE-UNOCT Seminar in Vienna
Publishing date: 1 November 2019
VIENNA, 1 November 2019- More than 170 experts from OSCE participating States and the Partners for Co-operation gathered in Vienna on 31 October and 1 November 2019 for the Third OSCE-wide Seminar on Passenger Data Exchange. The event, which this year focuses on how to counter the risks posed by returned foreign terrorist fighters, was organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Border Security and Management Unit and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT)...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists
Publishing date: 1 November 2019
The safety of journalists is of utmost importance for the work of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and it fully endorses the commitments made by Montenegro and other OSCE participating States at the OSCE Ministerial Council on the Safety of Journalists in December 2018.
OSCE supports conference on modernizing media industry on the occasion of Information and Press Day in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 1 November 2019
Some 230 representatives of the Office of the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, press services of government bodies, independent media, academia, and international organizations took part in the second Annual Partnership Media Conference on 31 October 2019 in Bishkek.
Good practices in interviewing victims of human trafficking in focus of OSCE training course for Ukrainian officials
Publishing date: 1 November 2019
The second training course on good practices in interviewing victims of human trafficking, organized as part of an OSCE project, was held from 28 to 31 October 2019 in Kyiv for Ukrainian officials working in this area...