OSCE mission

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed an interim report of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on the campaign environment for Turkey's April 16 referendum on whether to shift to an executive presidential system, declaring it "null and void."

BELGRADE - Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Ana Brnabic on Tuesday met with the head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Andrea Orizio to discuss a continuation of the successful cooperation between the Serbian government and the OSCE Mission, as well as planned activities of her ministry.

BELGRADE - It is important for Serbia to maintain the current pace of reforms, Serbian European Integration Minister Jadranka Joksimovic and OSCE Mission to Serbia Head Andrea Orizio agreed at a meeting in Belgrade Wednesday.

They discussed the reforms underway in Serbia, OSCE plans, Serbia's European integration process and regional cooperation.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister of Labour, Employment and Veteran and Social Affairs Aleksandar Vulin on Thursday met with the new head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Andrea Orizio, to discuss the cooperation achieved and the organisation's activities in the country.

The statue of former OSCE mission chief William Walker will be installed in January in the village of Recak/Racak in central Kosovo, where 45 ethnic Albanian civilians, including elderly people and children, were massacred by Serbian forces.

BELGRADE - Minister of Interior Nebojsa Stefanovic spoke with the new head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Andrea Orizio Tuesday, noting that the goal of the ministry is to continue the European integration by conducting reforms and fulfilling the obligations from Chapter 24.

He stressed that he expects further support and continued cooperation with the OSCE.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic on Friday received Ambassador Andrea Orizio, the new head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia.

The meeting was the step marking the start of Ambassador Orizio's public engagement in his capacity as OSCE Mission head.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and the outgoing head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Peter Burkhard, on Wednesday highlighted the good cooperation between the Interior Ministry and the OSCE in police work in local communities and the fight against corruption.

The OSCE and Kosovo have reached a deal that will allow the OSCE to collect the votes of Kosovo Serbs in the Serbian parliamentary elections in April.

It is the third election facilitation operation conducted by the OSCE in four years. It undertook the same role in the 2012 and 2014 Serbian parliamentary elections.

The OSCE Mission to Serbia on Tuesday presented its 2015 Person of the Year Award to three recipients at a ceremony in Belgrade, the organization said.