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OSCE trains Tajikistan law enforcement agencies on combatting terrorism
Publishing date: 28 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 28 February 2014 – Twenty-two officers from Tajikistan’s law enforcement agencies successfully completed the OSCE training on combatting terrorism in Dushanbe today...
OSCE Chair-in-Office announces visit of Personal Envoy and High Commissioner on National Minorities to Crimea
Publishing date: 27 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BERN, 27 February 2014- OSCE Chair in Office and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter has expressed his serious concern at on-going developments in Crimea and announced a visit by his Personal Envoy Tim Guldimann and OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors within the coming days.
Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan addresses OSCE Permanent Council, discusses initiatives to address contemporary security challenges
Publishing date: 27 February 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: Permanent Council
Initiatives to collectively develop a new platform of action for all OSCE participating States for the long-term perspective were in focus of the address of Rashid Meredov, Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan, to the OSCE Permanent Council on 27 February 2014...
42nd IPRM meeting takes place in Ergneti
Publishing date: 27 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
ERGNETI, 27 February 2014- Today, the 42nd meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Ergneti, co-facilitated by Toivo Klaar, the Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and Ambassador Angelo Gnaedinger, the OSCE Special Representative for the South Caucasus...
OSCE Mission to Skopje promotes youth engagement in local decision-making in Kumanovo
Publishing date: 27 February 2014
SKOPJE, 27 February 2014 – Encouraging youths from different ethnic communities to get involved in local decision-making is the aim of an event launched in Kumanovo today...
Banning TV, radio broadcasts poses threat to media freedom in Ukraine, OSCE representative says
Publishing date: 26 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
NEW YORK, 26 February 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed concern about an initiative by a group of members of Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, to ban broadcasts of some television and radio programmes in the country...
OSCE Centre promotes gender equality in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 26 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
ASHGABAT, 26 February 2014 – Fifteen policy-makers and law-enforcement officials discussed gender equality in society at an OSCE Centre-organized seminar in Ashgabat today...