Cooperation in Europe

A team of twenty-two monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is to oversee the forthcoming early elections on October 5.

This is the eight time in a row that the organization is to sent observers for a vote in Bulgaria. The deployment comes at the request of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry, Novinite's Bulgarian-language website reports.

Leaders of self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics have urged the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to ensure control over the ceasefire observance in southeast Ukraine.

Kiev officials and representatives of pro-Russian rebels have signed a ceasefire agreement at their meeting in Minsk, Friday.

Kiev officials and representatives of pro-Russian rebels have signed a ceasefire agreement at their meeting in Minsk.

ALPBACH, Austria - Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Lamberto Zannier believes that Serbia, next OSCE chair country, will be able to continue Switzerland’s efforts aimed at resolving the Ukraine crisis since it has both historical ties with eastern Slavic countries and deepening relations with the EU.

"Serbia can be neutral mediator in crisis"

BELGRADE -- Lamberto Zannier believes that Serbia, as the next chairman of the OSCE, "will be able to continue Switzerland's efforts to resolve the crisis in Ukraine."

BELGRADE - The 2015 chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be Serbia's political priority and a good opportunity for promoting our country, Minister of Youth and Sport Vanja Udovicic said at the opening of a conference titled “Model OSCE” on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Serbia will continue cooperating with state institutions on the issues of refugees and displaced persons, Head of Mission Peter Burkhard said in talks with Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric.

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has extended the ceasefire in east Ukraine by nearly a day, or until Monday evening, following a video conference with three foreign leaders.

Pro-Russian separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine on June 29 released a second group of four monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) who had been seized on May 29.

Four Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) observers, including Turkish obsever Mehmet Kılıç, were released by the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine in an apparent goodwill gesture on June 27.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on June 27 that kidnapped Turkish observer Kılıç's release was obtained following intense diplomacy.