News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 16/2021 issued on 22 January 2021
Publishing date: 22 January 2021
Summary The SMM recorded 39 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded seven ceasefire violations in the region. The Mission recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region, as in the previous reporting period. The SMM continued monitoring the
Press Statement of Special Representative Grau after the regular Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 21 January 2021
Publishing date: 21 January 2021
KYIV, 21 January 2021 — The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Heidi Grau, made the following statement to the press after the regular meetings of the TCG and its Working Groups held through video conferencing:
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 15/2021 issued on 21 January 2021
Publishing date: 21 January 2021
Summary The SMM recorded seven ceasefire violations in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded one ceasefire violation in the region. The Mission recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it also recorded no ceasefire violations in
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ann Linde visits Ukraine
Publishing date: 21 January 2021
KYIV, 21 January 2021 — OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ann Linde, concluded a two-day official visit to Ukraine yesterday. She called on the sides to step up their efforts to find a sustainable peaceful resolution to the crisis in and around Ukraine.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 14/2021 issued on 20 January 2021
Publishing date: 20 January 2021
Summary The SMM recorded one ceasefire violation in Donetsk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 18 ceasefire violations in the region. The Mission recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region. In the previous reporting period, it recorded one ceasefire violation in the
New members of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration appointed by Austria, Belarus and Portugal
Publishing date: 20 January 2021
Austria, Belarus and Portugal have renewed the mandates or, alternatively, appointed new members to the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration Court for new terms of six years after the previous mandates of their members expired.
OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation under United States’ Chairpersonship will focus on fulfilment of commitments, rebuilding military transparency and confidence
Publishing date: 20 January 2021
VIENNA, 20 January 2021 — Fulfilling commitments and rebuilding confidence and transparency are key steps to addressing new and long-standing politico-military issues in the OSCE region, said United States Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Bureau Ambassador Philip T. Reeker in his video message to open the United States Chairpersonship of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) today.