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The current ceasefire in the war in eastern Ukraine, the so-called Minsk-2 agreement, was signed last February, but they never actually ceased firing. At least a thousand more people have been killed in the fighting since then, and on one night last month (Aug. 14) the monitors of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) recorded 175 separate ceasefire violations.

The states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have to ensure the protection of the human rights of migrants in addressing the current crisis in Europe, speakers said at the opening of an OSCE conference on Monday.

The two-week conference in Poland's capital of Warsaw will focus on democracy and human rights.

In the run-up to the Nov. 1 snap elections, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has called on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for drafting reports taking into consideration Turkish voters coerced by armed threat.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has urged Russia to avoid holding snap military drills.

One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed and eight wounded in fresh separatist attacks, the military said in Kyiv on May 21, as the OSCE security watchdog warned of a "worrisome" spread of violence in eastern Ukraine.

Ahmeti, head of the junior party in the coalition government, said he found out about the police action as soon as it started, at 5am last Saturday - and that one of the gunmen who were by then surrounded by police called him, urging him to help negotiate a retreat from Kumanovo.

Macedonian journalists staged protests in the capital Skopje Wednesday evening, following the death threat sent to journalist Borjan Jovanovski, Reuters reported.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic talked in Belgrade on Wednesday with representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and underscored that Serbia, as the country that is currently holding the OSCE chairmanship, will do everything in its power to ensure that the ceasefire in Ukraine is fully respected.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday in a meeting with Head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Serbia Peter Burkhard that the cooperation with that mission is at the top level, and noted that the international community has positively assessed Serbia's chairmanship of the organization.

OSCE calls on all sides to respect ceasefire in Ukraine

VIENNA, BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic has expressed his concerned over an increase in fighting in southeast Ukraine and urged all sides to respect the ceasefire, the OSCE said.