OSCE Ministerial Council to meet in Basel, Switzerland, on 4-5 December, media accreditation now open
BERN, 13 October 2014 – The 21st OSCE Ministerial Council will take place on 4 and 5 December 2014 in Basel, Switzerland. The event will be held at the invitation of the 2014 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter. The Ministerial Council is the central decision-making and governing body of the OSCE....
Media briefing by Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine today in Kyiv
KYIV, 13 October 2014 – The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine will hold a media briefing in Kyiv today, Monday, at 12:00 noon local time, at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre, Hotel Ukraina, 3/F. Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, Chief Monitor of the SMM, and Michael Bociurkiw, Mission Spokesperson, will talk about the SMM’s...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 9 October 2014
This report is for media and the general public. The SMM noted a decrease in violence in a number of areas in Donbas. The lustration issue was debated in Lviv and Odesa. The deputy chief of police in Kupyansk (140km southwest of Kharkiv city) told the SMM that a police checkpoint in Petropavlovka (10km further west) was set to be re-enforced with...
OSCE remains at forefront of conflict resolution through mediation, say participants of high-level meeting in Vienna
VIENNA, 10 October 2014 – Mediation, now more than ever, is an important tool for resolving conflicts through peaceful means, and the OSCE remains at the forefront of conflict resolution as a mediator, providing support as well as sharing expertise and knowledge, said participants of a high-level conference on mediation in the OSCE area,...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 8 October 2014
This report is for media and the general public. SMM continued to monitor the situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, focusing on the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol/Memorandum. In Kyiv representatives of the Central Election Commission addressed some of the challenges that IDPs could face during the upcoming...
Kanerva highlights OSCE PA’s Helsinki +40 Project, meets Serbian FM at seminar
COPENHAGEN, 9 October 2014 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) underscored the vital contribution of the PA to the OSCE’s reform efforts on the 40th anniversary of its founding document at a seminar today in Helsinki. Kanerva also met with Serbian Foreign Minister and 2015 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ivica...
Russia does not control the conflict in Donbas but affects the level of its escalation
Compliance with the Minsk agreements will depend on the will of the Russian leadership. Russia continues to deny participation of its military officers in the operations in Eastern Ukraine, informs the news agency BBC. Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk notes that now it is...
The Razumkov Centre Newsletter №4 (11 September 2014)
Since the last issue of the Razumkov Centre Newsletter, a lot has happened. Unfortunately, the war has become the main topic today – Russia by using regular armed forces and heavy weapons resorted to an open aggression in the mainland Ukraine. The escalation of military action and its new scale resulted in significant casualties – both among the...
The risk of the conflict spreading beyond Donbas is constant
Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Oleksiy Melnyk commented to the newspaper Den whether there is a real risk of destabilisation in other regions of Ukraine. There is a risk of the conflict spreading beyond Donbas. It increases or reduces from time to time. However, this danger is...
