News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
In Yerevan OSCE Chairperson-in-Office encourages intensified negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and pledges continued OSCE support to reforms
Publishing date: 4 June 2014
YEREVAN, 4 June 2014 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, on an official visit to Yerevan today commended Armenia for its close cooperation with the OSCE Office in the implementation of a broad range of domestic reforms. Burkhalter said, after his meeting with Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan, that the OSCE is committed to continue supporting the country on its path of democratic reform.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office discusses OSCE engagement and international mediation efforts in Georgia, meets participants of Ergneti IPRM
Publishing date: 3 June 2014
TBILISI/ERGNETI, 3 June 2014 – In Tbilisi, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter met with Georgia’s President GiorgiMargvelashvili, Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili and Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze, as well as with representatives of the Parliament and the civil society...
45th meeting under Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 3 June 2014
ERGNETI, 3 June 2014- The 45th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Ergneti today, co-facilitated by Toivo Klaar, the Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and Ambassador Angelo Gnaedinger, the OSCE Special Representative for the South Caucasus...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office visits Baku, calls for intensified peace talks on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and welcomes establishment of OSCE Project Co-ordinator’s Office
Publishing date: 2 June 2014
BAKU, 2 June 2014 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, started his official trip to the South Caucasus today with a visit to Baku, where he discussed with President llham Aliyev new aspects of co-operation between the OSCE and Azerbaijan, and called for implementing tension-reducing measures regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict...
Swiss Chairperson-in-Office assures President-elect of OSCE’s continuing commitment to de-escalation in Ukraine
Publishing date: 30 May 2014
Bern, 30 May, 2014- Swiss Foreign Minister and Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Didier Burkhalter, in a phone call with President-elect of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, personally assured him of the OSCE’s continuing commitment to support Ukraine in finding adequate solutions to the crisis.
Detentions are sabotaging international efforts to overcome the crisis, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office says
Publishing date: 28 May 2014
Bern, 28 May, 2014- Didier Burkhalter, Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE and Swiss Foreign Minister, said that the detention of monitors of the Special Monitoring Mission cannot be tolerated and was undermining the important work of the Mission which was agreed upon by the 57 participating States of the OSCE on March 21. The detentions were acts of sabotage of international efforts to assist Ukraine in overcoming the crisis, Burkhalter continued.
Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism condemns attack at Jewish Museum in Brussels
Publishing date: 28 May 2014
WASHINGTON, 28 May 2014 – The Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism condemned the attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Saturday which left four people dead. The murder in Brussels was followed the next day by the beating in Paris of two men as they left a suburban synagogue. “These two vicious incidents are a reminder to us all that anti-Semitism remains a problem in the heart of Europe,” said Rabbi Andrew Baker...