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OSCE Office in Baku trains judges and prosecutors to combat money laundering and terrorist financing
Publishing date: 27 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Economic activities, Countering terrorism
GANJA, Azerbaijan, 27 December 2011 – The OSCE Office in Baku launched a training session today in Ganja, the second largest city of Azerbaijan, on countering money laundering and financing of terrorism...
OSCE media representative expresses concern over plans to criminalize genocide denial in France
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 22 December 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today over the approval by the lower chamber of France’s Parliament of a draft bill that aims at criminalizing public statements denying genocides...
Head of OSCE Presence in Albania welcomes election of People’s Advocate
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
TIRANA, 22 December 2011- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, welcomed today the election of the new People’s Advocate (Ombudsman) by the Albanian parliament...
OSCE holds training course on legislative drafting in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
ASHGABAT, 23 December 2011 – Legal experts from the Justice Ministry, the Institute of State and Law and the National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights (NIDHR) under the President of Turkmenistan took part in an OSCE-supported seminar on legislative drafting which concluded in Ashgabat today...
OSCE participating States approve 2012 OSCE budget
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 22 December 2011 – The Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship and the Irish Chairmanship of the Advisory Committee on Management and Finance welcomed today’s decision by all 56 OSCE participating States to approve the Unified Budget for 2012, amounting to 148,055,400 euros...
OSCE launches public awareness campaign on citizen-state interaction in Ukraine
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) launched a public awareness campaign on communicating with public officials on 22 December 2011...
Sharing experiences with the Baltic states to reform the Moldovan Prosecution Service
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
The Moldovan prosecution service is undergoing reform to strengthen its independence and effectiveness. On 16 December 2011 a group of experts from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania shared their experiences with their counterparts at a conference in Chişinău as part of a joint project by the OSCE Mission to Moldova and the Prosecutor General’s Office on support for prosecution service reform and capacity building based on the experience of the Baltic States...