News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Empowering youth critical to preventing incitement and radicalization of foreign terrorist fighters, say participants of OSCE conference in Vienna
Publishing date: 30 June 2015
VIENNA, 30 June 2015- Empowering young people and engaging with individuals at risk of radicalization is crucial to countering the phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters and confronting violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism, said participants at the start of a two-day OSCE-wide counter-terrorism conference which opened in Vienna today...
OSCE Chairperson Dačić and Secretary General Zannier condemn terrorist attacks in Tunisia and France, stress need for unity and solidarity
Publishing date: 26 June 2015
BELGRADE/VIENNA, 26 June 2015 – Sharply condemning the terrorist attacks in Tunisia and France today, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier stressed the need for unity and solidarity in the face of violent extremism...
2015 Annual Security Review Conference provides platform for debate on current security challenges
Publishing date: 25 June 2015
VIENNA, 25 June 2015- Current security challenges in the OSCE area and how the Organization can use its comprehensive toolbox as well as co-operation with other international and regional organizations to address them were the focus of the 2015 Annual Security Review Conference, which took place in Vienna on 23-25 June...
56th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 24 June 2015
ERGNETI, 24 June 2015- On 24th June 2015, the 56th 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...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Dačić appoints new Special Representative in Ukraine
Publishing date: 22 June 2015
BELGRADE, 22 June 2015– The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić today appointed Ambassador Martin Sajdik (Austria) as his new Special Representative in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group. He follows Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini (Switzerland) who, having fulfilled this assignment for one year, expressed her wish to step down...
Time to replace the culture of confrontation with co-operation and joint action, says OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Dačić
Publishing date: 17 June 2015
VIENNA, 17 June 2015- Replacing the current culture of confrontation with one of co-operation and joint action will make European security architecture more resilient, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said today as he addressed a meeting of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) Core Group and members of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security...
Efforts needed to safeguard journalists and to tackle propaganda, OSCE conference participants say
Publishing date: 16 June 2015
VIENNA, 16 June 2015 – Journalists’ safety is a cornerstone of free media, not least in times of conflict, and must be ensured and strengthened, participants said today at a two-day conference on journalists’ safety and conflict reporting in Vienna. The attendees also stressed the importance of tackling the issue of propaganda, pointing to free and independent journalism as one tool...