News and press releases

An agreement aimed at strengthening gender equality at the local level was signed between the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and local and national authorities in Montenegro on 22 June 2012...

A collective visit to Kosovo by 41 displaced persons to obtain documents necessary to regulate their legal stay in Montenegro took place on 20 June 2012. It is one in a series of such visits facilitated by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro.

VIENNA, 8 March 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today strongly condemned the attack on Olivera Lakić, a journalist with the daily newspaper Vijesti.

PODGORICA, 20 December 2011 – Representatives of judicial training institutions from the region met in Podgorica today to discuss how to step up their contribution to achieving justice in war crimes cases by providing effective training to judicial staff involved in such cases...

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro issued the following statement on the attack against a television crew from TV Vijesti on 18 November 2011:

In a visit to the office of the daily newspaper “Pobjeda” on 15 November 2011, the Head of the OSCE Mission, Šarunas Adomavičius, discussed issues on the state of the media in Montenegro and the prospects for the privatization of ''Pobjeda'' with the newspaper's Editor, Srđan Kusovac, Chief Executive Lav Lajović and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Miodrag Ivanović.

The findings of a survey on media freedom in Montenegro were presented at a roundtable event in Podgorica on 2 November 2011. The event was organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the Culture Ministry and the non-governmental organization the Centre for Democracy and Human Rights...