About the website

Welcome to www.osce.org, the official website of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). This site is managed by the Communication and Media Relations Section at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna, Austria.

For more detailed information about this website, including our privacy policy, information collected by the OSCE or third parties, links to third party websites and copyright issues, please see our Terms of Use page.

Technical standards and requirements

This website is designed using the international standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium to assure a smooth browsing experience accessible to all our users.

These standards are supported by modern web browsers such as recent versions of Google Chrome and Android, Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE10 or higher) and Edge, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera Software's Opera browser and Yandex YaBrowser, which support HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript. If you are using an older browser and experience problems with this site, we recommend that you upgrade your browser to the latest version. 

Adobe Reader (or any other PDF viewer) is required to view or download documents and publications in PDF format. You can download the latest version from the Adobe website.

The OSCE website contains a number of multilingual sections; therefore for languages other than English, a two- or three-letter code is automatically included in the URL address according to a standardized language code list ISO 639-2.

We also use the international public telecommunication numbering plan standard to format the phone members displayed on the website, so that they can directly be dialled from a smartphone.

Responsive design

The OSCE website has been designed with multiple devices in mind. So whether you're viewing on a monitor, tablet or smartphone, you will enjoy a rich user experience.