Organisation for Security

Serbia assumes OSCE presidency, focuses on co-operation

Serbia hopes to contribute to defusing the crisis in Ukraine and better relations in Southeast Europe during its year in the OSCE presidency.

Serbian Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ivica Dacic speaks at an OSCE meeting at the Hofburg Congress Centre in Vienna on January 15th. [AFP]

VIENNA - Serbia's path to the EU is clear and irreversible and Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic deserves the most credit for that, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sebastian Kurz said ahead of Vucic's visit to Vienna on Thursday.

VIENNA - Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) member states need to have a more comprehensive approach to solving water governance issues, concluded the participants of a preparatory meeting of the OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum in Vienna.

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.

At least 15 people have been killed and 76 injured in a series of rocket attacks allegedly launched by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol on Saturday.

Ukraine's Interior Ministry said in a statement houses in the government-held city had been hit by rockets fired by the rebels.

The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has again called for restraint of all parties involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine following new killing of civilians in the Donetsk region.

BELGRADE - Serbia will continue to pursue the policy of military neutrality and it will cooperate with all partners in the East and the West, Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic said during a meeting with the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Serbia, Alexander Chepurin, on Friday.

VIENNA - Serbia, which is set to formally assume chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on Thursday, has an opportunity to play the positive, but complex role of a fair mediator, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said in Vienna on Wednesday.

BASEL - The Ukrainian crisis poses a serious threat to regional stability and security in Europe, and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) can make an efficient contribution to addressing the challenges emanating from the crisis, Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Thursday.

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