News and press releases

Kyiv, 4 December 2013- On the eve of the Organization’s Ministerial Council, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and the Organization’s Chairperson in Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara discussed ongoing developments in Ukraine.

VIENNA, 1 December 2013 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier has welcomed the peaceful and orderly voting in the municipal election in Kosovo as a “significant step towards confidence and security.”

OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during an official visit to Brussels on 25 and 26 November 2013...

OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and newly-inaugurated Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili have discussed co-operation and priorities during a meeting on the fringes of the inauguration ceremony in Tbilisi this weekend...

VIENNA, 18 November 2013- OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier has welcomed the peaceful re-run of voting in three polling centres in northern Mitrovica/Mitrovicë...

SEOUL, 12 November 2013 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, in a keynote speech at the 2013 Seoul Defense Dialogue conference today, outlined key historic milestones of the Organization’s development and its principles, and discussed how the OSCE’s concept of comprehensive, co-operative security could serve as inspiration for other regions of the world, including Northeast Asia...

OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier paid an official visit to Moscow from 6 to 8 November 2013. He met with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Deputy Minister Alexey Meshkov and other senior officials, as well as with Nikolay Bordyuzha, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).