News and press releases

Bern, July 17, 2014- Didier Burkhalter, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister, expressed his sincere condolences to the families of the many victims of the shocking crash of the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukrainian territory. He said that the circumstances which led to this tragedy had to be investigated in a thorough and impartial manner and commended Ukraine’s readiness to involve international expertise.

BERN, 14 July 2014- In telephone conversations with the Ukrainian and the Russian Foreign Ministers today, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister; Didier Burkhalter, reiterated the OSCE’s support in various ongoing de-escalation efforts.

One priority of the Swiss OSCE Chairmanship is to strengthen the voice of young people and enhance their involvement within OSCE structures. To achieve this goal, the Swiss Chairmanship is organizing a Model OSCE series in which 57 young men and women from the OSCE participating States were invited to take part...

VIENNA, 10 July 2014 – The OSCE and participating States have made commendable advances in making gender equality a reality since the adoption of an action plan ten years ago, but new initiatives are needed in areas where progress has been lacking, said participants of the OSCE’s first Gender Equality Review Conference, today in Vienna...

VIENNA, 8 July 2014 – Twenty years after its adoption, the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects remains an indispensable instrument in exercising democratic control of the armed and security forces, guaranteeing their political neutrality, fostering human rights of service personnel, and governing security relations between States, stressed the speakers at the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Code of Conduct held today in Vienna.

CHISINAU, 2 July 2014 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian Settlement Process Ambassador Radojko Bogojević concluded his visit to the region today...

On 1 July 2014 the 46th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Ergneti, co-facilitated by Toivo Klaar, the Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and Ambassador Angelo Gnädinger, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus...