News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairperson meets Minsk Group Co-Chairs on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement
Publishing date: 5 February 2013
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, met the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Jacques Faure of France, and Ian Kelly of the United States as well as the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, on 5 February 2013 to discuss the progress towards settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict...
Children’s right to education must not be politicized, says OSCE report on Moldovan-administered Latin-script schools in Transdniestria
Publishing date: 4 February 2013
CHISINAU, 4 February 2013 – The OSCE Mission to Moldova and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities today published a report on the situation of the eight Moldovan-administered, Latin-script schools in Transdniestria...
Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia welcomes improved co-operation between Serbian and BiH war crimes prosecutors
Publishing date: 31 January 2013
BELGRADE, 31 January 2013- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Peter Burkhard welcomed today the signing in Brussels of the agreement on evidence sharing in war crimes cases between the Chief Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the War Crimes Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia...
30th IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 29 January 2013
ERGNETI, 29 January 2013- On 29 January the 30th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism, co-facilitated by the EU Monitoring Mission and the OSCE took place in Ergneti...
Press Release by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group and the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 28 January 2013
PARIS, 28 January 2013- On January 28, 2013, the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Jacques Faure of France, and Ian Kelly of the United States of America) met jointly with the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, and the Foreign Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian. Also participating in the meeting was the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.
OSCE Mission head condemns repeated desecration of Orthodox graveyards in Kosovo
Publishing date: 21 January 2013
Prishtinë/Priština, 21 January 2013 – The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jean-Claude Schlumberger, strongly condemned today the desecration of Orthodox graveyards and religious monuments throughout Kosovo...
OSCE Chairperson, in Moldova, urges leaders to intensify efforts ahead of Transdniestrian settlement talks
Publishing date: 21 January 2013
CHISINAU, 21 January 2013- The OSCE Chairperson, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, on an official visit in Chisinau today, urged the Moldovan and Transdniestrian leadership to prepare the ground for progress in the coming months' Transdniestrian settlement talks...