No New Cease-Fire for Ukraine, Mass Killing in Armenia Prompts a Call from Putin
Plus, jihadists reportedly expand their recruitment drive in Kyrgyzstan, and rights groups protest the jailing of a Macedonian journalist. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 16 January 2015
This report is for media and the general public. SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). The SMM observed a large number of ceasefire violations in the Donetsk region. The SMM conducted its third visit to the site of...
Statement by OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Regarding the Safety and Security of Monitors
KYIV, 16 January, 2015 – In response to media reports, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine reaffirms that no participating States have withdrawn their monitors from the Mission in Ukraine. “We continue to work closely with all OSCE participating States to ensure that their nationals seconded to the Mission operate in a safe and secure...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 15 January 2015
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). The JCCC and “DPR” leadership agreed a special joint inquiry into the incident causing the deaths of civilians on a bus in...
Statement by the Chairmanship on the Trilateral Contact Group
KYIV/VIENNA, 15 January 2015 – As a follow-up to the meeting of the four Ministers of Foreign Affairs in the “Normandy format” of 12 January 2015 in Berlin, the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), consisting of senior representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, met today in Kyiv in preparation for the...
Shameful Economic Secrets Exposed!
Conflict and sanctions reveal the squishy underbelly of the region’s economies. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Vucic Walks Rhetorical Line in Kosovo, U.S. Boosts Energy Ties with Bulgaria
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Serbian OSCE Chairmanship affirms support for Institutions and Field Operations
VIENNA, 16 January 2015 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić discussed with the Heads of the OSCE Field Operations and Institutions yesterday in Vienna the key issues in the OSCE region in 2015. “Serbia, a country which has been hosting OSCE presences for a long time, attaches great importance to the OSCE field...
Instead of implementing economic reforms, the government is increasing the fiscal burden
Director of Economic Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Vasyl Yurchyshyn commented to the magazine Krayina on how the Ukrainian government, instead of implementing economic reforms, had resorted to increasing the fiscal burden. There is a problem with how people understand reforms and how the government understands them. If reforms mean increasing...
Statement by the Chairmenship on the Trilateral Contact Group
KYIV/VIENNA, 15 January 2015 – As a follow-up to the meeting of the four Ministers of Foreign Affairs in the “Normandie format” of 12 January 2015 in Berlin, the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), consisting of senior representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, met today in Kyiv in preparation for the...
