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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE welcomes release of two British mission members
Publishing date: 6 October 2000
PRISTINA, 6 October 2000-- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo has welcomed the reported decision by the new authorities in Belgrade to release two British police officers who have been detained in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for the past two months.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office dismayed by further detention of British and Canadian citizens in FRY
Publishing date: 30 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Policing
VIENNA, 30 September 2000- The OSCE Chairperson in Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner has expressed her dismay that the authorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia have once again extended the detention of two British...
OSCE police monitoring group to cease operations in Danube Region
Publishing date: 21 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Policing
ZAGREB, 21 September 2000- The OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna has decided that the OSCE Police Monitoring Group in the Danube Region will cease operations...
OSCE Permanent Council calls on FRY to release detainees
Publishing date: 7 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Policing
VIENNA, 7 September 2000- The 54-member OSCE Permanent Council called on the authorities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) today to speed up legal procedures and to rapidly release from detention in Belgrade the two British OMIK members...
Rights of women to be included in police training in Albania
Publishing date: 1 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights, Policing
TIRANA, 1 September 2000-- A new police training course will be added to the curricula of two police training programmes in Albania
OSCE CiO statement on the British and Canadian citizens detained in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Publishing date: 18 August 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Policing
VIENNA, 18 August 2000- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, welcomes the fact that the two British and two Canadian citizens...
Two OSCE Mission in Kosovo members detained by Yugoslav authorities
Publishing date: 4 August 2000
PRISTINA, 4 August 2000-- Two international members of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, who did not report back from a few days holidays in Montenegro, are reported to have been detained by the Yugoslav authorities...