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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Participating States can and should make better use of OSCE tools to address common security challenges, say participants at OSCE Annual Security Review Conference
Publishing date: 25 June 2019
VIENNA 24 June 2019 – The OSCE has the framework, the platform and the tools needed to address today’s complex security challenges. What is needed to make effective use of those tools are political will, seeking new opportunities for dialogue and new ways of communicating and negotiating, all keynote speakers agreed at today’s opening session of the Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC).
OSCE Chairperson Lajčák wraps up trip to South-Eastern Europe with visit to Mission in Kosovo, one of the OSCE’s largest field missions
Publishing date: 21 June 2019
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 21 June 2019 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovakia’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister, Miroslav Lajčák, concluded today his trip to the three OSCE field operations in South-Eastern Europe with a visit to the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.
OSCE Chairperson Lajčák urges BiH political leaders to re-engage in dialogue and intensify efforts to advance the reform agenda
Publishing date: 21 June 2019
SARAJEVO, 21 June 2019 – Concluding his two-day visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovakia’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister, Miroslav Lajčák, stressed the need to explore all avenues to get the country back on track, including through adopting key reforms...
OSCE presents results of survey on the well-being and safety of women
Publishing date: 20 June 2019
SARAJEVO, 20 June 2019 – The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) presented in Sarajevo today the results of the OSCE-led Survey on the Well-being and Safety of Women for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
Prespa Agreement a milestone achievement and textbook example of successful diplomacy and conflict resolution, stressed OSCE Chairperson Lajčák
Publishing date: 19 June 2019
SKOPJE, 19 June 2019 – On a trip to the Republic of North Macedonia, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovakia’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, today in Skopje, congratulated North Macedonia on its successes over the last year, in particular the Prespa Agreement on the issue of the country’s name and achieved reforms...
Press Statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sajdik after meeting of Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk on 19 June 2019
Publishing date: 19 June 2019
MINSK, 19 June 2019 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its working groups in Minsk on 19 June 2019:..
Officials, practitioners and experts gather in Bratislava for OSCE-wide conference on the future of cybersecurity
Publishing date: 19 June 2019
BRATISLAVA, 19 June 2019- Trends, challenges and opportunities related to inter-state security in the ICT/cyber space were the focus of a conference that brought together more than 200 representatives of governments, the private sector, civil society, academia and the UN for an OSCE-wide conference on 17 and 18 June 2019. The conference, Cyber/ICT Security for a Safer Future: The OSCE’s Role in Fostering Regional Cyber Security, was organized by the Slovak OSCE Chairmanship, in co-operation with the Transnational Threats Department of the OSCE Secretariat...