OSCE Centre supports international forum on future energy
ASTANA, 23 October 2014 – The International Forum “Future Energy: Reducing CO2 Emissions” held in preparation for the International Specialized Exhibition EXPO-2017 started today in Astana. The two-day forum co-organized by the national company “Astana EXPO-2017” with support from the OSCE Centre in Astana brought together some 500...
A growing deficit of coal in Ukraine
2014-10-22Wojciech KonończukNext to gas, coal is of key importance in the Ukrainian energy balance and in electricity production. …read more Source: Centre for Eastern...
OSCE Mediterranean Conference opens in Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Monday
VIENNA, 23 October 2014 – The 2014 OSCE Mediterranean Conference will take place on 27 and 28 October 2014 in Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since 1995, the OSCE has been holding annual events with its Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia). The topic of 2014 OSCE Mediterranean...
Radical attitudes in the Ukrainian society are much lower than they were last year
Burning tires and hurling firecrackers has become so trendy today that it seems that no event of at least some importance for the country can do without it. Given the statements of some politicians, messages in social networks, and publications in some media, the level of radicalism has increased significantly, informs the newspaper Komsomolskaia...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 20 October 2014
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 within this context the work of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC). The Donetsk and Luhansk regions remained tense. In Kharkiv the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed to the...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities discusses issues of citizenship, language, and education in Latvia
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Gender-sensitive and human rights-compliant approach needed to make counter-terrorism measures effective, say participants of Vienna workshop
VIENNA, 21 October 2014 – Counter-terrorism measures can only become sustainable and effective through a gender-sensitive and human rights compliant approach, said participants at the start of a two-day workshop for senior government experts, organized by the OSCE and the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF). The workshop brings together...
Eastern Ukraine conflict: Summary killings, misrecorded and misreported
Headline Title: Eastern Ukraine conflict: Summary killings, misrecorded and misreported 20 …read more Source: Amnesty...
Offers of support for Ukraine welcomed by OSCE Secretary General
VIENNA, October 20, 2014 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier has welcomed offers by France, Germany, Italy and Russia to help in implementing the Minsk documents. Discussions are ongoing amongst the 57 participating States on details of the offers to put Unmanned Aerial Vechicles (UAV) and related personnel at the OSCE’s...
Meeting with Chairperson of the Institute for Strategic Studies (Poland)
On 30 September 2014, the meeting of experts of the Razumkov Centre, in particular Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes O. Melnyk and Leading Expert of Political and Legal Programmes V. Zamiatin, with Chairperson of the Institute for Strategic Studies Anna Szymanska-Klich was held. At the meeting, they discussed...
