News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairperson and OSCE Secretary General congratulate António Guterres on his appointment as UN Secretary-General
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
BERLIN/VIENNA, 6 October 2016- Following the UN Security Council decision to appoint António Guterres as the new UN Secretary-General, OSCE Chairperson-in Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier expressed their heartfelt congratulations and praised the choice. Steinmeier said he hoped for enormous support in the UN General Assembly, which would give Guterres a strong mandate for leadership of the United Nations...
Press Statement of OSCE Chair Special Representative Sajdik after meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on 5 October 2016
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
MINSK, 6 October 2016 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Martin Sajdik, made the following press statement after the meeting of the TCG and its four Working Groups in Minsk on Wednesday, 5 October 2016...
Press Communiqué of Co-Chairs of Geneva International Discussions
Publishing date: 5 October 2016
GENEVA, Switzerland, 5 October 2016- The thirty-seventh round of the Geneva International Discussions has just ended.
Disengagement is a key step towards full and sustainable ceasefire in Ukraine, say OSCE Chairmanship’s Special Representative and SMM Chief Monitor
Publishing date: 5 October 2016
VIENNA, 5 October 2016 – Disengagement is a key step towards a full and sustainable ceasefire in Ukraine and the sides need to do more to make it a reality on the ground, said the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group Martin Sajdik and the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine Ertugrul Apakan in their addresses yesterday to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna...
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...
Education, security and coalition-building at the heart of OSCE/ODIHR project on addressing anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance
Publishing date: 28 September 2016
WARSAW, 28 September 2016 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is unveiling today a project focused on addressing the security needs of Jewish communities, fostering coalition building among different communities, and countering anti-Semitism through education, at an event in Warsaw...
70th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 28 September 2016
On 28th September 2016, the 70th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Ergneti, co-facilitated by Kęstutis Jankauskas, the Head of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) and Ambassador Guenther Baechler, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus...