News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Collective effort, political commitment required to address conflicts, transnational threats, say participants at OSCE Annual Security Review Conference
Publishing date: 19 June 2013
Finding common responses to security threats and challenges as the Organization moves towards a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security community was the topic of the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference that started in Vienna on 19 June 2013...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, on his visit to Georgia, expresses concern over obstacles to freedom of movement along Administrative Boundary Line with South Ossetia
Publishing date: 18 June 2013
TBILISI, 18 June 2013- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, on a two-day visit to Georgia, today discussed with President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili and Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze a number of issues, focusing on the OSCE agenda...
OSCE Chair calls on the parties of the Transdniestrian settlement to refrain from unilateral actions impeding the negotiation process
Publishing date: 17 June 2013
KYIV, 17 June 2013 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara expressed his concern over the negative implications for the Transdniestrian settlement process caused by the recent adoption by the Transdniestrian side of the so-called legal act on the border.
OSCE’s role is to bridge diverging perceptions of security, says Ukrainian Chairmanship representative
Publishing date: 17 June 2013
“One of the OSCE’s main functions lies in managing and bridging diverging perceptions of security through its co-operative approach,” said Ambassador Ihor Prokopchuk, speaking on behalf of the Ukrainian OSCE Chairmanship at the opening of the 2013 Security Days event on 17 June 2013...
OSCE Chairperson meets with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
Publishing date: 14 June 2013
KYIV, 14 June 2013 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara received today the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Jacques Faure of France, and Ian Kelly of the United States as well as the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk...
Greater efforts, co-operation needed to ensure security of Jewish communities, say participants at OSCE conference in Berlin
Publishing date: 13 June 2013
BERLIN, 13 June 2013 – Violent attacks and threats motivated by anti-Semitism affect the day-to-day lives of Jewish communities all across the OSCE region, and these communities are in need of protection from these threats and the harmful impact they have on their religious and cultural activities and on their human rights, said participants at an expert OSCE conference in Berlin today...
Participants at high-level OSCE conference in Kyiv call for stronger anti-trafficking action
Publishing date: 10 June 2013
KYIV, 10 June 2013 – Ways to strengthen the OSCE participating States’ response to human trafficking in terms of the prevention of the crime, prosecution of offenders and protection of victims are the focus of a high-level conference that started in Kyiv today...