News and press releases

VIENNA, 17 June 2015- Replacing the current culture of confrontation with one of co-operation and joint action will make European security architecture more resilient, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said today as he addressed a meeting of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) Core Group and members of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security...

MINSK, 16 June 2015 – Strengthening OSCE engagement with Belarus was the focus of a two-day visit to Minsk by OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Michael Georg Link which concluded today...

ASTANA, 11 June 2015 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier visited Astana on 10-11 June to participate in the 5th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions and to hold bilateral meetings with Kazakhstan’s Chairman of the Senate, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov...

SEOUL, 1 June 2015 –Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea Yun Byung-se, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand Tanasak Patimapragorn, Ambassador Vuk Žugić from the Serbian OSCE Chairmanship and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier opened the 2015 OSCE Asian Conference by emphasizing the need for increased co-operation between the OSCE and its Asian Partners for Co-operation in tackling today’s non-traditional and transnational threats...

TIRANA, 27 May 2015- The OSCE Secretary General, Lamberto Zannier, today concluded a two-day visit to Tirana, during which he participated as a special guest at the summit of Heads of State and Government of the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) and met with Albania’s highest officials. Throughout his visit, he emphasized that regional co-operation is key to ensuring peace, security and stability...

Vienna, 7 may 2015- “Global challenges are on the rise, and this highlights the need for the UN and Regional Organizations to step up their efforts to co-ordinate and co-operate more effectively to maintain peace and security” OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier told the General Assembly during a high-level thematic debate on “Strengthening Co-operation between the United Nations and Regional and Sub-regional Organizations” held in New York on 4 May.

SARAJEVO, 16 April 2015- OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier concluded yesterday a three-day visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he met with high-level state officials, Srebenica municipal and religious leaders, and senior representatives of the international community...