News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office in Tajikistan supports negotiation training for Interior Ministry special forces
Publishing date: 17 April 2012
The OSCE Office in Tajikistan helped organize a training course on negotiating with terrorists for the release of hostages, for special forces staff of the Interior Ministry from 4 to 12 April 2012...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities discusses minorities and regional security in Tashkent
Publishing date: 17 April 2012
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek visited Uzbekistan on 11 and 12 April 2012...
ODIHR supports conference on increasing women’s participation in Polish politics
Publishing date: 17 April 2012
Strategies to raise women’s participation in Polish political life were the focus of a conference organized in Warsaw on 17 April 2012 by the Polish Institute of Public Affairs, and supported by ODIHR and the British Embassy...
OSCE Office in Baku supports legal centre for entrepreneurs
Publishing date: 16 April 2012
MINGACHEVIR, Azerbaijan, 17 April 2012 – A legal advice centre for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supported by the OSCE Office in Baku opened today in Mingachevir, the fourth biggest city in Azerbaijan...
Open and secure borders in Central Asia essential for ensuring stability, combating transnational threats, say participants at OSCE-supported meeting
Publishing date: 16 April 2012
VIENNA, 16 April 2012 – Participants of a ministerial-level, OSCE-supported meeting of the Central Asia Border Security Initiative (CABSI) that started in Vienna today, stressed the need to join efforts to counter transnational threats while ensuring open and secure borders in the region...
OSCE Office trains Azerbaijani police on managing public gatherings
Publishing date: 16 April 2012
BAKU, 16 April 2012 – Today the OSCE Office in Baku starts a two-week training course for Azerbaijani police and internal troops on public assembly management...
OSCE Chairperson welcomes release of Belarusian opposition leader, calls on President to free others
Publishing date: 15 April 2012
DUBLIN, 15 April 2012 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, today said he was relieved that Belarusian opposition leader Andrei Sannikov has been released from custody under a presidential amnesty and called on President Aleksandr Lukashenko to free all remaining jailed opponents...