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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Munich Security Conference: OSCE Troika calls for immediate ceasefire in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 7 February 2015
MUNICH, Germany, 7 February 2015 – During the Ministerial Meeting of the OSCE Troika at the margins of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Troika, Serbia, Switzerland and Germany, had a thorough exchange of views on the situation in and around Ukraine. The OSCE Secretary General also attended the meeting...
Statement by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on latest developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process
Publishing date: 7 February 2015
MUNICH, Germany, 7 February 2015- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, James Warlick of the United States of America, and Pierre Andrieu of France) today to discuss developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. The OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and the Personal Representative of the CiO Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk also joined the meeting...
Statement by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the situation in Eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 3 February 2015
In view of the continuing heavy fighting around Debaltsevo and the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the area, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivica Dačić, calls upon all actors to refrain from violence and to immediately stop all military activities and expresses his profound regret for the loss of lives.
Statement by the Chairmanship on the Trilateral Contact Group consultations in Minsk on 31 January 2015
Publishing date: 1 February 2015
MINSK, 31 January 2015- The participants in the Trilateral Contact Group came to Minsk for consultations with the representatives of certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The TCG had prepared a detailed plan for the concrete implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum, which continue to be the indispensable basis for any peaceful settlement...
OSCE Chairperson Dačić regrets loss of lives, calls for immediate and urgent ceasefire in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 31 January 2015
BELGRADE, 31 January 2015 – In the course of the past 24 hours the situation has rapidly deteriorated in eastern Ukraine impacting innocent civilians. Lives have been lost and many have been injured...
Statement by the Trilateral Contact Group
Publishing date: 30 January 2015
MINSK, 30 January 2015- On 28 January President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko met with the representatives of the Trilateral Contact Group, the Special Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini, representative of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, and representative of the Russian Federation, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, Mikhail Zurabov to exchange views on the most pressing questions relating to the de-escalation of the situation in some districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions...
Statament by the OSCE Chairperson and the Special Representative to the Trilateral Contact Group
Publishing date: 30 January 2015
The Special Representative of the CiO to the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini, wishes to emphasize that her representatives have been waiting in Minsk since yesterday morning in order to prepare for a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group with representatives from certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk. Their efforts to contact these representatives were not successful. Ambassador Tagliavini and her representatives continue to be ready for a meeting at any time, and they continue being actively working for this purpose...