Remember Crimea? A Year Later
The first anniversary of Crimea’s annexation is an occasion to refocus on Ukraine’s central challenge: the need to implement domestic reforms and limit Russian leverage. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
Spot Report by OSCE Observer Mission: A twenty-first Russian convoy of 82 vehicles crossed into Ukraine and returned back through Donetsk Border Crossing Point
This report is for media and the general public. SUMMARY On 26 March 2015 at 07:20hrs (Moscow time), a Russian convoy arrived at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (BCP). A total of 82 vehicles were checked by the Russian border guard and customs services. All the vehicles had crossed back into the Russian Federation by 17:20hrs on 26 March....
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 25 March 2015
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. The SMM, based on its monitoring – which was restricted by third parties and by security considerations* – observed that fighting continued around the Donetsk airport. In the area of...
Dangers facing journalists must not be ignored, safety of journalists remains high on OSCE agenda, says Chairperson Dačić
BELGRADE, 26 March 2015 – Violence against journalists is unacceptable and must be treated like violence against society as a whole, said the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, today at the opening of a two-day OSCE conference on the Protection of safety and integrity of journalists in the OSCE region. The...
OSCE Special Representative, in Skopje, welcomes authorities’ latest efforts in combating human trafficking
SKOPJE, 26 March 2015 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova, praised the country’s authorities for its efforts, supported by the OSCE Mission to Skopje, to combat modern-day slavery at the conclusion of a four-day visit to the country. During the visit,...
OSCE New Media Accreditation Procedure begins on 15 April 2015
Bona fide representatives of the media – print media, photo, radio, television and film, news agencies and online media – can now apply for yearly accreditation to OSCE events in Vienna. For the yearly Media Accreditation, applicants need to provide the following: Completed accreditation form A letter of assignment on official...
OSCE-supported Aarhus Centres discuss their role in trans-boundary water management in South-East Europe
TIRANA, 26 March 2015 – More than 40 representatives of central and local governments, Aarhus Centres and civil society from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia discussed the challenges of public participation in trans-boundary water management and in trans-boundary Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) processes at a two-day...
German Power and the Ukraine Conflict
The Ukraine crisis has revealed both the strengths of German foreign policy-diplomatic skill and economic power-and its weakness-a lack of military muscle. …read more Source: Carnegie Endowment for International...
The EU Eastern Partnership Needs More Attention to Security
On March 6-7, 2015, the EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs reached the conclusion that the EU Eastern Partnership (EaP) requires transformation and further development. The current situation in the EaP Region, frozen conflicts, and aggression against Ukraine demands more attention to the security dimension of the EU initiative and it is very...
Eurozone officials dash Greek hopes of securing €1.2bn from bailout fund
Eurozone officials dash Greek hopes of securing €1.2bn from bailout fundOfficials in the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) agreed in a teleconference yesterday that Greece has no right to tap €1.2bn from the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), one of the Eurozone’s bailout funds. The Greek government claimed that it had overpaid the...
