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OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs meet with the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 3 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
PARIS, 3 September 2012- The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the United States of America, Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, and Jacques Faure of France) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, met on September 2 with the Foreign Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian, and on September 3 with the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, to address recent events in the region and efforts to peacefully resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict...
Closer international co-operation needed to close gap between assets stolen and recovered, say participants at OSCE conference
Publishing date: 3 September 2012
VIENNA, 3 September 2012- The need for greater exchange of expertise and international co-operation in identifying and seizing stolen assets was highlighted by participants at a three-day OSCE seminar that started today in Vienna...
OSCE Centre in Astana head stresses OSCE support at Constitution Day conference
Publishing date: 3 September 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
The Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, Ambassador Natalia Zarudna, attended a two-day high-level conference in Kazakhstan on “Constitution: the foundation of social and state modernization,” which was held on 30 and 31 August 2012 in Astana...
OSCE to help Armenia’s Syunik province diversify local economy
Publishing date: 31 August 2012
The OSCE Office in Yerevan’s Project Implementation Presence (PIP) will help Syunik region administration diversify the local economy and help mitigate the economic security risks of mining, starting in August 2012...
Legislative drafting skills focus of OSCE-supported course in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 31 August 2012
ASHGABAT, 31 August 2012 – Instructors from the Civil Service Academy under the President of Turkmenistan and law faculty of Magtymguly State University participated in an OSCE-organized training course on legislative drafting that concluded in Ashgabat today...
OSCE Centre in Astana project helps to improve identification of trafficking victims
Publishing date: 29 August 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
ASTANA, 29 August 2012 – The results of a project on identifying victims of trafficking and ways to improve current practice were the focus of an OSCE-supported roundtable meeting held in Astana today...
Young journalists at OSCE Academy in Bishkek discuss media issues with German Minister
Publishing date: 28 August 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Media freedom and development