News and press releases

VIENNA, 4 April 2005- Dr. Nebojsa Covic, Head of the Co-ordination Centre for Kosovo and Head of the Co-ordination Body for southern Serbia, will address the OSCE Permanent Council on Thursday, 7 April. He will speak about current developments in...

VIENNA, 10 February 2005- Soren Jessen-Petersen, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Kosovo, said on Thursday that the OSCE would continue to play an important role in Kosovo as the United Nations presence is scaled down...

VIENNA, 3 February 2005- The OSCE Permanent Council held a minute's silence on Thursday in honour of Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania after his unexpected death. The Chairman of the Permanent Council, Ambassador Janez Lenarcic of Slovenia, said...

VIENNA, 30 December 2004- The OSCE Permanent Council held a minute's silence on Thursday in honour of the victims of the devastating tidal wave which killed tens of thousands of people in countries around the Indian Ocean.

VIENNA, 25 November 2004- The Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, presented the UNODC's Afghanistan Opium Survey 2004 to the OSCE Permanent Council on Thursday. Following is the text...

VIENNA, 21 October 2004- Immediate action is necessary by the Afghan authorities and electoral body if deadlines are to be met to prepare for the next round of elections, says a report presented to the public by the OSCE today...

VIENNA, 9 September 2004- The OSCE Permanent Council honoured the victims of a recent series of brutal terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation with a minute's silence on Thursday. After a number of heads of delegation expressed their sympathy and...