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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Open exchange of views vital to protecting human rights, strengthening democratic institutions, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Special Representative, OSCE Secretary General and ODIHR Director say at close of Warsaw Conference
Publishing date: 30 September 2016
WARSAW, 30 September 2016 – The free and open exchange of views and information is vital to helping governments protect and promote human rights, fundamental freedoms and tolerance and non-discrimination, as well as to improve and strengthen democratic practices and institutions, Gernot Erler, Germany’s Special Representative for the 2016 OSCE Chairmanship, Lamberto Zannier, OSCE Secretary General, and Michael Georg Link, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said today on the occasion of the closing of a two-week OSCE conference in Warsaw...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Secretary General mourn the death of Shimon Peres
Publishing date: 28 September 2016
BERLIN / VIENNA, 28 September 2016 – Following the news on the passing of former President and Prime Minster of Israel Shimon Peres, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier today expressed their deep sadness and honoured his life’s work...
OSCE Secretary General Zannier meets with Foreign Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic Abdyldaev at UN General Assembly
Publishing date: 23 September 2016
New York, 22 September 2016- OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met with Foreign Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic Erlan Abdyldaev on the margins of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly to discuss the OSCE's contribution to peace and stability in Kyrgyzstan.
OSCE Special Representative Erler and Secretary General Zannier, at European Parliament Committee, highlight fields of co-operation with the EU
Publishing date: 30 August 2016
BRUSSELS, 30 August 2016- Gernot Erler, Special Representative of the Federal Government of Germany for the OSCE Chairmanship, and Lamberto Zannier, Secretary General of the OSCE, today spoke about OSCE-EU co-operation during an address to the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs in Brussels...
On World Anti-Trafficking Day, OSCE calls for comprehensive, co-ordinated and victim-centred approach to combatting modern-day slavery
Publishing date: 30 July 2016
VIENNA / WARSAW, 30 July 2016 – A comprehensive, co-ordinated and victim-centred approach to combat human trafficking that includes creating opportunities for regular and safe migration, as well as protecting the human rights of migrants, is urgently needed by all state actors, civil society and multilateral organizations, said senior OSCE officials today ahead of World Anti-Trafficking Day on 30 July.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Secretary General express deep concern and call for respect of democratic institutions in Turkey
Publishing date: 16 July 2016
Berlin/Vienna, 16 July 2016 –Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier both expressed deep concern after the attempted military coup in Turkey.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier and Secretary General Zannier condemn terror attack in Nice
Publishing date: 15 July 2016
BERLIN / VIENNA, 15 July 2016 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier today condemned the deadly terror attack in Nice, France...