News and press releases

ERGNETI, 20 March 2012- The 21st meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Ergneti today. The meeting was co-facilitated by the EU Monitoring Mission and the OSCE...

JALAL-ABAD, Kyrgyzstan, 10 March 2012 – More efficient use of water resources and resolving potential disputes over water were the focus of a training seminar that took place today in Jalal-Abad, southern Kyrgyzstan, with the support of the OSCE Osh field office...

SKOPJE, 9 March 2012 – The role of women in conflict prevention and peaceful conflict resolution was the topic of an OSCE-supported public event that took place in Skopje today...

BAKU, 6 March 2012- The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the United States, Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, and Jacques Faure of France) and Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk (Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office) traveled March 2-6 to Yerevan, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Baku.

Quiet diplomacy has an important role in addressing the root causes of conflicts, stressed the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek in his address to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Winter Session 2012 on 24 February 2012...

DUBLIN, 29 February 2012- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Irish Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, welcomed the progress achieved in official 5+2 talks towards a Transdniestrian settlement that ended in Dublin today...

Official negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement began in Dublin on 28 February 2012. The two-day meeting brings together representatives of the sides, mediators and observers in the negotiations- Moldova, Transdniestria, the OSCE, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the US and the EU...