News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Gender equality in the military enhances security for all, say participants of joint OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation-Permanent Council meeting
Publishing date: 7 October 2015
VIENNA, 7 October 2015 – Implementing gender equality in the military is a work in progress but further efforts are still needed to improve the participation of women in the decision-making in the armed forces, said experts who took part in the joint session of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) and the Permanent Council today in Vienna...
The Helsinki principles have not lost their validity, says Chairperson Dačić while addressing Panel of Eminent Persons in Belgrade
Publishing date: 2 October 2015
BELGRADE, 2 October 2015 – The crisis in and around Ukraine has underscored the enduring relevance and the need to reaffirm, strengthen and safeguard the Helsinki principles, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić today in Belgrade as he addressed the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project...
New security challenges amplify need for OSCE to adapt its peace operations, says OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Dačić at Ministerial event in New York
Publishing date: 2 October 2015
NEW YORK, 2 October 2015 – The emergence of increasingly complex, transnational and interconnected threats to security means the OSCE must look for ways to adapt its peace operations and its whole conflict-cycle toolbox, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić on Thursday at the start of a Ministerial event on the margins of the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Dačić calls for resumption of international humanitarian operations in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 1 October 2015
NEW YORK, 1 October 2015 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić today expressed deep concern at the continued suspension of almost all humanitarian programs in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions that can potentially lead to further aggravation of already alarming humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine. He called on all sides to adopt measures that would allow immediate resumption of activities by humanitarian organizations, and provide for the improvement of freedom of movement in eastern Ukraine...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Dačić welcomes agreement on withdrawal of weapons in eastern Ukraine reached within the Trilateral Contact Group
Publishing date: 29 September 2015
NEW YORK, 29 September 2015 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić welcomed the agreement on withdrawal of tanks, artillery under 100mm and mortars up to 120mm in eastern Ukraine, which was reached in Minsk today by the Working Group on Security of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG)...
OSCE CiO Dačić meets Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, his Personal Representative Kasprzyk
Publishing date: 28 September 2015
NEW YORK, 28 September 2015 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, 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), and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, in New York today.
58th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 23 September 2015
On 23 September 2015, the 58th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Ergneti, co-facilitated by Kęstutis Jankauskas, the Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and Ambassador Angelo Gnaedinger, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus...