Section: OSCE (EU)
OSCE Troika Ministers discuss Panel of Eminent Persons’ final report
206306 Back to Diplomacy: Final Report and Recommendations of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project The conclusions of the final report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on …read more Source:...
Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), 5 December 2015: Armed individuals guarding heavy weapons in Yurivka fire into the air as SMM monitors tried to approach
At 9:24hrs on 5 December, an SMM patrol comprised of four SMM monitors and the SMM medical officer in two armoured vehicles arrived at a field in the vicinity of “Lugansk People’s Republic”(“LPR”)-controlled Yurivka (26km south-west of Luhansk), where the SMM had observed 12 towed howitzers (D-30, 122mm) during previous visits – in...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 4 December 2015
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM recorded a relatively low number of ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, some of which were assessed to be training activities*. The SMM continued to facilitate and monitor adherence to the ceasefire to enable repair of critical infrastructure, and to monitor movement of...
Constructive spirit at 22nd OSCE Ministerial Council laid solid foundations for continuing dialogue on Europe’s security challenges, says Chairperson Dačić
BELGRADE, 5 December 2015 – The 22nd OSCE Ministerial Council took place in a good, constructive and frank atmosphere, laying solid foundations for continuing dialogue on addressing Europe’s security challenges, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić earlier today after the two-day meeting drew to a...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 3 December 2015
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM recorded ceasefire violations in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, some of which were assessed to be training activities*. The SMM made a first visit to two heavy weapons permanent storage sites in areas of Luhansk region not controlled by the Government. Interlocutors reported difficulties in...
OSCE helps Ukraine to introduce information management system for mine action
MEREFA, Ukraine, 4 December 2015– A first group of 12 Ukrainian emergency personnel officers completed a four-day training course today on operation of an information management system for mine action (IMSMA), organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine at the State Emergency Service training facility in Kharkiv oblast . Developed and...
Only through dialogue can solutions be found to crisis in and around Ukraine, says OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Dačić
BELGRADE, 4 December 2015 – Only through dialogue can enduring and sustainable solutions be found to the crisis in and around Ukraine, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić on Thursday as he joined his Special Representative to the Trilateral Contact Group and the OSCE’s Chief Monitor in addressing...
OSCE conducts seminar for judges from relocated administrative courts in Eastern Ukraine on human rights protection
206166 Andrii Dziubenko An OSCE-supported two-day seminar on the protection of human rights and application of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for 60 judges working in the relocated …read more Source:...
Far-reaching action needed in world ‘spiralling out of control,’ OSCE PA President tells foreign ministers
BELGRADE, 3 December 2015 – Far-reaching action by the international community is needed to deal with a world that “sometimes seems to be spiralling out of control,” OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) said today in an address to foreign ministers assembled in Belgrade at the 2015 OSCE Ministerial Council. Read the...
OSCE Troika meets at Ministerial Council in Belgrade, calls for further measures to strengthen ceasefire in Ukraine
BELGRADE, 3 December 2015 – During the Ministerial Meeting of the OSCE Troika on the margins of the 22nd Ministerial Council in Belgrade, the Foreign Ministers of the current, previous and incoming OSCE Chairmanships – Serbia, Switzerland and Germany, respectively – reaffirmed their full support to the political process within the...
