In focus

OSCE Ministerial Council 2014

The OSCE youth ambassadors posing for a group photo with the foreign ministers at the Ministerial Council meeting in December 2014

Thursday, 04.12.2014 – Friday, 05.12.2014
OSCE

The annual meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council will be held in the Basel Congress Centre at the beginning of December 2014.

Location: Basel

Civil society parallel conference

Tuesday, 02.12.2014 – Wednesday, 03.12.2014
OSCE

Prior to the annual meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council, a civil society conference will take place for the fifth time from 2 to 3 December 2014.

Location: Basel

Travel to Central Asia

Wednesday, 19.11.2014 – Saturday, 22.11.2014
Official visit; OSCE

The President of the Swiss Confederation visited Central Asia. Political discussions focused primarily on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and bilateral themes.

Location: Central Asia

OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism in Berlin

The OSCEs tenth Conference on Anti-Semitism takes place on 13 November 2014. © Keystone

Thursday, 13.11.2014 – Thursday, 13.11.2014
OSCE

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Didier Burkhalter, is to hold the opening speech at the OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism. The event is being organised by the Swiss Chairmanship, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and Germany.

Location: Berlin

Swiss Parliament hosts OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

Swiss President Didier Burkhalter speaking with National Councillor Andreas Aebi, the head of the Swiss parliamentary delegation to the OSCE. To his left, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Ilkka Kanerva and President of the Council of States Hannes Germann (far left)

Friday, 03.10.2014 – Sunday, 05.10.2014
Conference; OSCE

Within the framework of the Swiss Chairmanship of the OSCE, the Swiss Parliament will host the organisation's Parliamentary Assembly in Geneva for its autumn meeting.

Location: Genf

Swiss side event: Ukraine, OSCE, and European security

Friday, 26.09.2014 – Friday, 26.09.2014
OSCE

On the occasion of its OSCE Chairmanship, Switzerland is organising a side event on the theme "The Ukraine Crisis, the OSCE and the Future of European Security.

Location: New York

OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum

The Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, President of the Swiss Confederation Didier Burkhalter, and the Czech Foreign Minister, Lubomír Zaorálek, in Prague

Wednesday, 10.09.2014 – Wednesday, 10.09.2014
OSCE

Following two preparatory meetings this year, one of which was held in Montreux and Valais in May, the OSCE is dedicating this year's Economic and Environmental Forum to the discussion on measures to prevent natural disasters. The forum is taking place in Prague on 10 September 2014.

Location: Prague

Burkhalter presented OSCE’s response to Ukraine crisis

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Didier Burkhalter discussing the current situation in Ukraine with representatives of the EU and the US in the margins of the Nato summit

Friday, 05.09.2014 – Friday, 05.09.2014
OSCE

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Burkhalter presented the OSCE’s contribution to co-operative security response regarding Ukraine during an event at the NATO Summit in Newport, Wales.

Location: Newport

Fourth regional civil society conference

Agit Mirzoev, Executive Director of the Analytical Center for Interethnic Cooperation and Consultation, Yuri Dzhibladze, member of the Coordinating Council of the Civic Solidarity Platform, and Günther Bächler and Kakha Kozhoridze, ambassadors of the Georgian Young Lawyers Association

Wednesday, 03.09.2014 – Saturday, 04.10.2014
OSCE

The fourth and final regional workshop with representatives of civil society took place in Tbilisi, Georgia, within the framework of the Swiss OSCE Chairmanship. Under the banner of "implementing human rights commitments to improve peoples’ lives", around 40 participants from the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) are taking part in discussions on the topics of preventing torture, the independence of the judiciary, and discrimination and hate crime.

Location: Tbilisi

Visit to Germany and Estonia

The President of the Swiss Confederation, Mr Didier Burkhalter, pronounces a speech

Monday, 25.08.2014 – Monday, 25.08.2014
OSCE

The President of the Swiss Confederation, Didier Burkhalter, travels at the invitation of the German and Estonian foreign affairs ministers, Mr Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Mr Urmas Paet.

Location: Berlin/Tallinn

A public events programme by the Canton of Basel-Stadt and swisspeace

Curator Ashley Woods in front of the first panel of the photo exhibition “Making Peace” on the banks of the Rhine in Basel

Monday, 18.08.2014 – Saturday, 13.12.2014
OSCE

The opening of the exhibition "Making Peace" in mid-August marked the launch of the events programme organised by civil society to accompany the OSCE Ministerial Conference.

Location: Basilea

Gender Equality Review Conference

The Special Representative of the Swiss Chairmanship in Office on Gender Issues, June Zeitlin, chairing the High Level Opening Panel of the First Ever Gender Equal Review Conference

Thursday, 10.07.2014 – Friday, 11.07.2014
Conference; OSCE

The year 2014 marks ten years since the OSCE’s Ministerial Council adopted the Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality. While achievements have been made, challenges remain before gender equality is fully realised across the OSCE region.

Location: Vienna

Foreign policy

International organizations

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Swiss OSCE Chairmanship 2014

OSCE Chairmanship 2014