News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Georgian Foreign Minister addresses OSCE, calls for active response to security and human rights situation, restoration of OSCE presence, confidence-building
Publishing date: 10 October 2013
VIENNA, 10 October 2013 – Georgian Foreign Minister Maja Panjikidze outlined foreign and domestic policy priorities, spoke about current security challenges in the region, and called for active engagement of the international community and OSCE in addressing them, in a speech to the OSCE Permanent Council today...
Brussels round of Transdniestrian settlement talks focuses on freedom of movement
Publishing date: 3 October 2013
BRUSSELS, 3 October 2013 – The latest round of 5+2 talks in the Transdniestrian settlement process, chaired by the OSCE Chair’s Special Representative for Conflicts Ambassador Andrii Deshchytsia, concluded today in Brussels with an extensive discussion on issues of freedom of movement...
OSCE supports jazz workshop and concerts in Tiraspol and Comrat
Publishing date: 2 October 2013
Ethno-Jazz Festival is one of the largest annual cultural events in Moldova. In 2013, the geographic scope of the Festival was expanded to cover for the first time Tiraspol and Comrat where OSCE –supported jazz workshops and concerts took place on 27 and 28 September...
Press Release by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group and the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 28 September 2013
NEW YORK, 27 September 2013- The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Jacques Faure of France, and James Warlick of the United States of America) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, met with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian in New York on September 27...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office welcomes results of meeting between leaders of Chisinau and Tiraspol
Publishing date: 24 September 2013
NEW YORK, 24 September 2013 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Ukraine Leonid Kozhara welcomed today the extension of the protocol decision on resumption of a full-scale freight railway service through Transdniestria. The relevant agreement was signed at the meeting of the Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leancă and the Transdniestrian leader Yevgeniy Shevchuk in Tiraspol on 23 September...
On International Day of Peace, OSCE Chair says education vital for reducing tensions, emphasises need to resolve protracted conflicts
Publishing date: 21 September 2013
KYIV, 21 September 2013 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara marked the International Day of Peace today by stressing the vital role education can play in promoting peace and the urgent need for increased and co-ordinated efforts to peacefully resolve protracted conflicts in the OSCE region...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office welcomes resumption of direct dialogue between leadership of Chisinau and Tiraspol
Publishing date: 19 September 2013
KYIV, 19 September 2013 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Leonid Kozhara welcomes the agreement reached on a meeting of the Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leancă and Transdniestrian leader Yevgeniy Shevchuk, scheduled for 23 September in Tiraspol...