News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
ODIHR Director, OSCE Chairmanship representatives welcome French investigation of anti-Semitic and racial motives in Toulouse shootings
Publishing date: 20 March 2012
BISHKEK, 20 March 2012 – Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the ODIHR Director, today condemned the attack that killed four people outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France on Monday, and welcomed actions by the French authorities to investigate this and the shootings of French soldiers last week as anti-Semitic or racially motivated crimes...
21st IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 20 March 2012
ERGNETI, 20 March 2012- The 21st meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Ergneti today. The meeting was co-facilitated by the EU Monitoring Mission and the OSCE...
Promoting gender equality and women’s rights must be a priority for all OSCE states, says Chairperson on International Women’s Day
Publishing date: 8 March 2012
DUBLIN, 8 March 2012 – Promoting gender equality and ensuring women’s participation in political, public and economic spheres must be central to the work of the OSCE and all 56 participating States, said the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore today marking International Women’s Day...
OSCE Chairperson welcomes progress in Transdniestrian settlement talks
Publishing date: 29 February 2012
DUBLIN, 29 February 2012- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Irish Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, welcomed the progress achieved in official 5+2 talks towards a Transdniestrian settlement that ended in Dublin today...
Official 5+2 talks on Transdniestrian settlement start in Dublin
Publishing date: 28 February 2012
Official negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement began in Dublin on 28 February 2012. The two-day meeting brings together representatives of the sides, mediators and observers in the negotiations- Moldova, Transdniestria, the OSCE, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the US and the EU...
Parliamentarians have vital role in ensuring OSCE commitments, OSCE Chairmanship tells Parliamentary Assembly
Publishing date: 24 February 2012
VIENNA, 24 February 2012 – Parliamentarians have a vital role to play in ensuring the effectiveness of the OSCE and the implementation of its commitments, said Lucinda Creighton, Ireland’s Minister of State for European Affairs, in Vienna today...
OSCE Personal Representative urges participating States to take hate crimes against Muslims seriously
Publishing date: 22 February 2012
ASTANA, 22 February 2012- In view of the Oslo massacre last summer and the spate of neo-Nazi serial killings in Germany, the OSCE Chairperson’s Personal Representative on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims Ambassador Adil Akhmetov expressed concerns over the feeling of insecurity among Muslim communities across the OSCE region...