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Statement by spokesperson of Germany’s Federal Foreign Office on alleged plans for armed OSCE mission to eastern Ukraine

Publishing date: 27 April 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BERLIN, 27 April 2016- A spokesperson of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, holder of the 2016 OSCE Chairmanship, issued the following statement in Berlin today in response to reports on alleged plans for an armed OSCE mission to eastern Ukraine...

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier condemns recent threats against OSCE monitors in Ukraine

Publishing date: 27 April 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BERLIN, 27 April 2016 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier today expressed concern following the recent increase in ceasefire violations in Eastern Ukraine and the growing number of incidents involving OSCE monitors...

Further international cooperation needed to alleviate consequences of Chernobyl disaster, says OSCE Chairperson Steinmeier

Publishing date: 26 April 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BERLIN, 26 April 2016 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster today, stressed the need for further international cooperation to alleviate the consequences of the Chernobyl accident and to prevent the occurrence of such catastrophe in the future...

65th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti

Publishing date: 20 April 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
ERGNETI, 20 April 2016 – The 65th 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 EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and Guenther Baechler, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus...

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier stresses importance of ODIHR’s work during visit to headquarters in Warsaw

Publishing date: 19 April 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections, Roma and Sinti, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
WARSAW, 19 April 2016 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, today visited the headquarters of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in the context of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Office...

Statement by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the domestic political crisis in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Publishing date: 14 April 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Rule of law
Berlin, 14 April 2016 – “I am very concerned about the latest developments in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The decision of the Macedonian President to exempt from criminal prosecution politicians and office holders, who face charges of grave misconduct, damages the rule of law and legal peace.

OSCE donates equipment for the removal of the unexploded ordnance to State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Publishing date: 14 April 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KYIV, 14 April 2016 – On behalf of the OSCE Secretariat and in close cooperation with the Project Coordinator in Ukraine (PCU), Deputy to the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine Jeffrey Erlich donated today to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU) the first lot of equipment for the removal of unexploded ordnances (UXO) in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.