News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Maintaining a constant commitment to human rights the foundation of real security, say speakers at OSCE conference in Warsaw
Publishing date: 19 September 2016
WARSAW, 19 September 2016- OSCE participating States must focus on their commitments to defend human rights to effectively retain real security, speakers said at the opening of the 20th OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw today...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier, in eastern Ukraine, praises work of Special Monitoring Mission and welcomes recommitment by the sides to the cease-fire
Publishing date: 15 September 2016
KRAMATORSK, 15 September 2016- On the second day of his visit to Ukraine, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, together with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, visited the Patrol Hub of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) in the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine. They also met with internally displaced persons (IDP) in Sloviansk. The ministers were accompanied by OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office visits Ukraine for political talks and to meet monitors of the Special Monitoring Mission together with OSCE Secretary General
Publishing date: 14 September 2016
BERLIN / KYIV, 14 September 2016- German Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Frank-Walter Steinmeier has embarked on a two-day visit to Ukraine, starting with political talks in Kyiv today. Steinmeier’s meetings with President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine will take place together with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, thus reflecting the close and continuous political partnership of Germany and France in the framework of the so-called Normandy format...
Good governance crucial to achieving sustainable development, strengthening stability and security in OSCE region, say Forum participants in Prague
Publishing date: 14 September 2016
PRAGUE, 14 September 2016 – Good governance is crucial to achieving sustainable development, strengthening stability and security within the OSCE region, highlighted participants at the 24th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum which opened today in Prague...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Special Representative Sajdik calls for sustainable ceasefire in Ukraine during Russian Federation visit
Publishing date: 12 September 2016
BERLIN, 12 September 2016- The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, had meetings in Moscow, from 8 to 10 September, with the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, the Aide to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladislav Surkov, as well as with the representatives of the Russian Federation in the TCG, Boris Gryzlov and Azamat Kulmukhametov...
German OSCE Chairmanship sharply condemns latest nuclear test in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Publishing date: 9 September 2016
BERLIN, 9 September 2016- Germany, also in its capacity as the OSCE Chairmanship in 2016, has declared its sharp condemnation of the latest nuclear test in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)...
Statement by Ambassador Martin Sajdik after today’s meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk
Publishing date: 7 September 2016
MINSK, 7 September 2016- Ambassador Martin Sajdik, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the implementation of the peace plan in eastern Ukraine, made the following press statement after today's meeting of the TCG and its four Working Groups in Minsk...