News and press releases

COPENHAGEN, 14 November 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) today issued the following statement on the 13 November terror attacks in Paris:

Belgrade/Vienna, 14 November 2015 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier today condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks targeting several locations in the French capital, Paris, that seem to have resulted in killing and injuring dozens. They expressed their deep condolences to the victims, their families and the French government and people, and wished a rapid recovery to the injured, as well as a speedy and safe release of all the hostages.

DUSHANBE, 13 November 2015 – Some 24 senior and mid-level staff of K-9 Centre of Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry from Dushanbe and the country’s regions today completed a two-week training course, facilitated by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, on the effective use of service dogs in the fight against terrorism and organized crime...

ASTANA, 10 November 2015 – The role and participation of civil society in preventing and countering violent extremism was the topic of an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion, which began today in Astana.

WASHINGTON, D.C., 10 November 2015 – A report issued today by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) called on the United States to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and to either bring the remaining detainees to trial or free them...

Complying with human rights standards, while effectively countering terrorism, was the focus of two training courses organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 2- 3 and 5- 6 November 2015 in Madrid, Spain...

Preventing violent extremism and radicalisation leading to terrorism (PERT) was the focus of the OSCE Mission to Skopje-supported conference held today in Skopje...