Michael Georg Link

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has called on Bulgaria to immediately stop evictions of Roma and address the problem of anti-Roma rhetoric.

The media statement of the OSCE was issued several days after the European Court of Human Rights demanded the suspension of the demolition of two illegal buildings in the village of Garmen.

BELGRADE/AUSCHWITZ/VIENNA - On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp, officials of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on Tuesday highlighted the importance for societies to oppose the contemporary challenges of anti-Semitism, racism and other forms of intolerance.

VIENNA - Ivica Dacic, the Serbian foreign minister and OSCE chairperson-in-office (CiO), talked in Vienna on Thursday with heads of the OSCE field operations and institutions about the key issues in the OSCE region in 2015, and offered support to their work.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will on Wednesday meet with the President and Foreign Minister of the Swiss Confederation Didier Burkhalter, who is OSCE chairman-in-office, and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin on the fringes of a conference on antisemitism.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met on Wefnesday with Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Michael Georg Link.

The meeting was part of Serbia's preparations to take over the chairmanship of the OSCE next year, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated.