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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Representative for Western Balkans welcomes progress on search for missing persons
Publishing date: 13 May 2014
BELGRADE, 13 May 2014- Ambassador Gérard Stoudmann, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Western Balkans met Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić in Belgrade on 12 May, and on a trip to southwest Serbia, Stoudmann welcomed the progress made by Serbian authorities in the search for missing persons...
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine- based on information received until 18:00 hrs, 12 May (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 13 May 2014
The situation in Ukraine remained calm with the exception of Donetsk where the situation remained tense...
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine- based on information received until 18:00 hrs, 12 May (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 13 May 2014
The situation in Ukraine remained calm with the exception of Donetsk where the situation remained tense...
Swiss Chairperson-in-Office receives positive responses to OSCE Roadmap, says implementation is well underway
Publishing date: 12 May 2014
BERN, 12 May 2014- The OSCE Roadmap, drafted in a sense of urgency last week as the situation in Ukraine had deteriorated further, and distributed simultaneously to the four parties of the Geneva Joint Statement of April 17, is an offer to help implementing de-escalation measures in a concrete, structured and effective manner, Burkhalter said...
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine- based on information received from 18:00, 9 May until 18:00, 11 May (Kyiv time)
Publishing date: 12 May 2014
The situation in Ukraine remained calm with the exceptions of Donetsk and Luhansk where the situation remained tense. Members of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) were stopped at an illegal checkpoint in the vicinity of Luhansk and released 3 hours later...
OSCE/ODIHR and HCNM release report by Human Rights Assessment Mission in Ukraine
Publishing date: 12 May 2014
WARSAW / THE HAGUE, 12 May 2014 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) today released the report from the joint Human Rights Assessment Mission the two institutions sent to Ukraine in early March 2014...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office remembers 20 years of Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire
Publishing date: 12 May 2014
Bern, 12 May 2014- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, welcomed the statement made today by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs in commemoration of the ceasefire that entered into force on 12 May 1994. He expressed his gratitude to the Co-Chairs (Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Jacques Faure of France, and James Warlick of the United States of America) and to Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, his Personal Representative on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, for their tireless mediation efforts...