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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office gives full backing to Minsk package
Publishing date: 12 February 2015
BELGRADE, 12 February 2015- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, welcomed the results of the Summit in Minsk and gave his full support to the package of measures for the implementation of the September 2014 Minsk agreements agreed by the Trilateral Contact Group...
OSCE Special Representative for Transdniestrian settlement process on his first visit of 2015 to the region
Publishing date: 11 February 2015
CHISINAU, 11 February 2015 – The Special Representative of the Serbian OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian settlement process, Ambassador Radojko Bogojević, completed today three days of meetings in Chisinau and Tiraspol. This was his first visit of the year and under the 2015 Serbian Chairmanship of the OSCE...
OSCE Special Representative for Transdniestrian settlement process to meet the sides on 9-10 February
Publishing date: 9 February 2015
CHISINAU, 9 February 2015 – The Special Representative of the Serbian OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian Settlement Process Ambassador Radojko Bogojević will visit Chisinau and Tiraspol starting today...
Munich Security Conference: OSCE receives Ewald von Kleist Award, honoured for contribution to peace, stability, security in Europe
Publishing date: 7 February 2015
MUNICH, Germany, 7 February 2015 – The OSCE’s crucial role as a bridge-builder and an agent of peace was recognized today, said Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Troika and the OSCE Secretary General as they accepted the Ewald von Kleist Award, on the margins of the Munich Security Conference. For the first time in the award’s history, it is being given to an organization rather than an individual.
Munich Security Conference: OSCE Troika calls for immediate ceasefire in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 7 February 2015
MUNICH, Germany, 7 February 2015 – During the Ministerial Meeting of the OSCE Troika at the margins of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Troika, Serbia, Switzerland and Germany, had a thorough exchange of views on the situation in and around Ukraine. The OSCE Secretary General also attended the meeting...
Statement by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on latest developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process
Publishing date: 7 February 2015
MUNICH, Germany, 7 February 2015- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic 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) today to discuss developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. The OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and the Personal Representative of the CiO Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk also joined the meeting...
Statement by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the situation in Eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 3 February 2015
In view of the continuing heavy fighting around Debaltsevo and the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the area, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivica Dačić, calls upon all actors to refrain from violence and to immediately stop all military activities and expresses his profound regret for the loss of lives.