News and press releases

A group of 17 OSCE Ambassadors arrived in Dushanbe on 4 April 2011 for a week-long trip to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to familiarize themselves with how the Organization addresses transnational threats in the region. They visited the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and met with top government officials, including President Emomali Rakhmon and Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi, and civil society representatives working in areas relevant to comprehensive security...

VIENNA, 31 March 2011 – Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council today reconfirmed the country’s commitments to its OSCE obligations in all dimensions of security, stressed the need for active international involvement in economic rehabilitation of Afghanistan, and the importance of promoting political dialogue in Central Asia to overcome differences on water and energy...

VIENNA, 3 March 2011 – Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan told the OSCE Permanent Council today that the OSCE Minsk Group remains the only internationally mandated format for negotiations on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and expressed his hope for a peaceful resolution of the conflict...

VIENNA, 17 February 2011 – The U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Hannah Rosenthal, and the U.S. Special Representative to Muslim Communities, Farah Pandith, addressing the OSCE Permanent Council today, said that more needs to be done by OSCE and other stakeholders in respecting fundamental freedoms and combatting all forms of intolerance...

VIENNA, 10 February 2011 – The EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, Peter Semneby, called for strengthened EU and OSCE engagement in the South Caucasus in a presentation to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna today...

VIENNA, 13 January 2011 – The new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, urged the Organization's participating States to focus on resolving existing conflicts and achieving concrete progress in addressing transnational threats and safeguarding fundamental freedoms in his inaugural address to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna today...

VIENNA, 18 November 2010- The 56 OSCE participating States today agreed to adapt the Organization's support to Kyrgyzstan's police taking into account changed circumstances in the country...