News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Chairman-in-Office relieved about release of Luhansk-based SMM team, says OSCE ready to support implementation of peace plan to the extent security situation permits
Publishing date: 28 June 2014
Collections: Donetsk and Luhansk-based teams of OSCE monitors released , Swiss Chairmanship takes lead in OSCE Ukraine efforts
Bern, 28 June, 2014- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, relieved to hear that the four members of the Luhansk-based team of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission were set free, commended the tireless work of the SMM towards the release of the team members who were in captivity since May 29, 2014.
Second group of OSCE monitors freed in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 28 June 2014
KYIV, 28 June 2014- The four members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission’s Luhansk-based monitoring team that went missing on May 29 were released this evening after exactly one month in captivity...
Russian Duma Chair, Ukrainian Rada Deputy Chair address OSCE PA Annual Session
Publishing date: 28 June 2014
BAKU, 28 June 2014 – Russian State Duma Chair Sergey Naryshkin and Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Deputy Chair Ruslan Koshulynskyi addressed the opening plenary of the 23rd OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session in Baku today, offering contrasting views on the crisis in Ukraine but pledging support for a diplomatic resolution...
Azerbaijan’s President, OSCE Chair-in-Office open OSCE PA Annual Session
Publishing date: 28 June 2014
BAKU, 28 June 2014 – The 23rd OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session has begun in Baku, with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Swiss President and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Didier Burkhalter addressing nearly 300 parliamentarians from more than 50 nations...
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine based on information received until 26 June 2014, 18:00 (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 27 June 2014
The situation across the country was calm. A Holocaust memorial was vandalised in Kherson region, and some internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Roma community faced difficulty in having their housing needs met in Kharkiv. Four SMM monitors from the Luhansk team have been missing for 28 days. Four SMM monitors from the Donetsk team who had been missing for 32 days were released late on 26 June.
OSCE PA President welcomes release of monitors in Ukraine
Publishing date: 27 June 2014
BAKU, 27 June 2014 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ranko Krivokapic today welcomed the release of four Donetsk-based monitors from the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine after they had spent 32 days in captivity...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office grateful for support in release of four monitors from Donetsk-based SMM team, calls for setting free the other team of four without delay
Publishing date: 27 June 2014
Collections: Donetsk and Luhansk-based teams of OSCE monitors released , Swiss Chairmanship takes lead in OSCE Ukraine efforts
Bern, 27 June 2014 – While expressing his gratitude to all who helped in setting four of the eight monitors of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission free, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister, Didier Burkhalter, he emphasized the leading role of the SMM in the efforts for the release of the four monitors from the Donetsk-based SMM team to whom contact was lost on 26 May; he thanked all participating States for their support in this regard.