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OSCE Chairperson, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore.

Ireland to draw on experience to promote conflict resolution, digital media freedom in 2012 as new OSCE Chair

DUBLIN, 1 January 2012 – Ireland’s 2012 Chair of the OSCE will seek to address protracted conflicts, promote Internet freedom and strengthen co-operation between the 56 OSCE participating States, said the new Chairperson-in-Office, Irish Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, today...

OSCE Chairperson pledges Lithuania’s support for Ireland’s 2012 Chairmanship

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, congratulated his successor as OSCE Chairperson, Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore today on Ireland taking over the OSCE Chairmanship from 1 January 2012...

OSCE Chairperson welcomes exchange of detainees by Tbilisi and Tshkinvali

VILNIUS, 30 December 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed the exchange of detainees by the authorities in Tbilisi and Tskhinvali today...
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, speaking at a press conference before the 18th OSCE Ministerial Council, Vilnius, 5 December 2011.

OSCE Chairperson welcomes agreement on new government in BiH

VILNIUS, 29 December 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed today the agreement by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s politicians to form a new state government...

OSCE media freedom representative expresses concern over newly-adopted broadcasting law in Kazakhstan

VIENNA, 28 December 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern about a controversial law on television and radio broadcasting adopted today by Kazakhstan’s upper chamber of Parliament...
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Election observation

Counting begins at a polling station in Jurmala during Latvia's early parliamentary elections, 17 September 2011.
Details of OSCE/ODIHR’s current election observation activities, including reports from the election observation missions to Croatia, the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan.

18th OSCE Ministerial Council

The 18th OSCE Ministerial Council in Vilnius is being held in the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre (Litexpo Complex), on 6-7 December 2011.
The 18th Meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council was held in Vilnius on 6 and 7 December 2011. The Ministerial Council is the central decision-making and governing body of the OSCE.

OSCE Magazine, 4/2011

The Nikosi irrigation water project, managed by the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre, has provided water pumps and pipes to supply river water to the large Saltvisi irrigation channel, for the benefit of farmers affected by the August 2008 conflict in Georgia, 17 June 2011.
This issue of the OSCE Magazine features interviews with the incoming Chairperson-in-Office Eamon Gilmore, and the Director of the Conflict Prevention Centre Adam Kobieracki.