Section: OSCE (EU)
OSCE Ministerial Council to start in Basel on Thursday
BERN, 2 December 2014 – The 21st OSCE Ministerial Council, gathering some 50 foreign ministers, will take place on 4 and 5 December 2014, at the Basel Exhibition Centre, in Basel, Switzerland at the invitation of the 2014 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter. The Ministerial Council is the central...
OSCE/ODIHR opens mission to observe parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan
TASHKENT, 2 December 2014 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today held the opening press conference of its limited election observation mission for the 21 December parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan. The mission’s deployment follows an invitation from the authorities of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time) 30 November 2014
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued to focus its observation on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum, including by monitoring activities of the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC). In Makiivka, the SMM observed the offloading of three trucks of the Russian convoy coming from the...
Elections in Moldova were generally well administered, in a campaign influenced by geopolitical aspirations, say international observers
CHISINAU, 1 December 2014 – The 30 November parliamentary elections were characterized by a wide choice of political alternatives and were generally well administered, although the deregistration of one electoral contestant shortly before election day raised questions about the timing and circumstances, international election observers said in a...
Spot report by OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk, 30 November 2014: Russian convoy of 43 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned back through the Donetsk Border Crossing Point
This report is for media and the general public. SUMMARY On 30 November 2014 at 09:42 hrs (Moscow time), a Russian convoy consisting of 43 vehicles arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point. The vehicles were checked by the Russian border guard and customs services. On the same day at 21:16 hrs, all vehicles had crossed back into the Russian...
OSCE/ODIHR observers to hold opening press conference in Tashkent on Tuesday
Tashkent, 1 December 2014 – On the occasion of the formal opening of the limited election observation mission deployed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to observe the 21 December parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan, the mission will hold a press conference in Tashkent on Tuesday, 2 December. Ambassador...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 28 November 2014
The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. The SMM monitored the first hearing of a case concerning 15 people accused of participating in the clashes in Odesa on 2 May. The situation in Kharkiv was calm. The SMM met the head of the village council of government-controlled Beleovodsk (90...
International election observers in Moldova to hold press conference on Monday
CHISINAU, 28 November 2014 – The international observers monitoring the 30 November parliamentary elections in Moldova will present their preliminary post-election statement at a press conference on Monday, 1 December 2014, in Chisinau. The international observation mission is a common endeavour involving the OSCE Office for Democratic...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 27 November 2014
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, focusing on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. The SMM recorded numerous shelling instances across Donbas. The deputy rector of Donetsk National University in Vinnytsya told the SMM that the...
OSCE helps Ukrainian anti-trafficking NGOs refine ideas for social businesses
Representatives of four Ukrainian civil society organisations had a chance to refine their social business ideas, intended to support their anti-trafficking activities, at a three-day intensive training workshop in Kyiv that ended on Thursday, 27 November 2014. The event organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine in co-operation with...
