Washington — The head of the international observation mission to the United States election has delivered an unusual rebuke to a sitting American president, saying that baseless allegations of systematic fraud — in particular by the incumbent — are damaging public trust in democratic institutions. Michael Georg Link, the German diplomat leading the OSCE Office […]
Geneva — The presidents of the United States, Russia and France issued a rare joint statement on Thursday calling for an immediate ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, as the heaviest fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in a quarter of a century stretched into a fifth day with no sign of abating. Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and […]
Vienna — The OSCE’s media freedom watchdog has warned that emergency powers adopted in Hungary to fight the coronavirus could be turned against journalists, in one of the sharpest interventions yet over governments using the pandemic to squeeze the press. Harlem Désir, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, wrote to Budapest this week […]