Section: OSCE (EU)
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 3 October 2014
This report is for media and the general public. In the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, and in particular in the city of Donetsk and its surroundings, the situation remained tense. Displacement continued in the rest of the country. In Kharkiv the SMM was informed by the city authorities that on 25 August two statues of Lenin were toppled in two...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 2 October 2014
This report is for media and the general public. In the city of Donetsk and its surroundings, the overall security situation is deteriorating. An ICRC staff member was killed as a result of heavy shelling. In Kharkiv the SMM observed the Regional Council session, which was opened to the public and included four members of Parliament. The Council...
Ukraine in focus as OSCE Chair-in-Office opens OSCE PA Autumn Meeting
GENEVA, 3 October 2014 –The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2014 Autumn Meeting has opened in Geneva, with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter urging some 200 parliamentarians from more than 50 nations to support the “very fragile shift” from “a military to a political logic in the Ukraine crisis.” OSCE PA...
Statement by the Spokesperson for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
KYIV, 3 October 2014 – The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMMU) acknowledges that a breach of its own internal security regulations occurred in early September 2014 in Donetsk city involving one of our vehicles. The SMMU regrets the incident where two uniformed individuals boarded our vehicle. We have also undertaken all...
OSCE trains customs officers on detecting and preventing environmental crimes
125075 A canine expert demonstrates the detective ability of a trained dog during a regional workshop co-organized by the OSCE in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, 1 October 2014. (OSCE/Leonid Kalashnyk) …read more Source:...
Opening the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Geneva, Swiss Chair says collective effort needed to restore stability and rebuild common understanding of European security
GENEVA, 3 October 2014 – Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Foreign Minister and Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, gave an opening address to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which is meeting in Geneva for its autumn session this weekend. Recalling that the ‘Helsinki Final Act’ was negotiated in the very same conference building in Geneva four...
