OSCE Mission to Skopje

L-r: Minister of Local Self-Government Nevzat Bejta, OSCE Mission to Skopje National Public Administration Reform Officer Maja Subotic, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje Ambassador Ralf Breth, and the President of the Association of Local Self-Government (ZELS) Koce Trajanovski, speaking to the media before a roundtable on Local Self-Government Capacity Building, Skopje, 18 July 2012. (OSCE/Mihajlo Lahtov)
L-r: Minister of Local Self-Government Nevzat Bejta, OSCE Mission to Skopje National Public Administration Reform Officer Maja Subotic, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje Ambassador Ralf Breth, and the President of the Association of Local Self-Government (ZELS) Koce Trajanovski, speaking to the media before a roundtable on Local Self-Government Capacity Building, Skopje, 18 July 2012. (OSCE/Mihajlo Lahtov)
The OSCE Mission to Skopje is the Organization's longest-serving field mission, originally established in September 1992 to help prevent the tension and conflicts in the former socialist Republic of Yugoslavia.
The Old Railway Station in Skopje. The clock on the side of the building stopped at 5:17am on 26 July 1963, marking the moment the city was turned into rubble by the 1963 earthquake. The building now houses the Museum of the City of Skopje.

Unity to remain at all times: OSCE Mission commemorates 50th anniversary of the Skopje earthquake

SKOPJE, 26 July 2013 – Only twenty seconds altered the future of the city: on this day in 1963, Skopje was hit by a massive earthquake, killing more than a thousand people and destroying or damaging eighty percent of all buildings. Today, as the OSCE Mission to Skopje commemorates the 50th anniversary of the disaster, the Acting Head of Mission, Ambassador Marianne Berecz, stressed that the solidarity demonstrated at that difficult time should serve as an inspiration for the future...
Vesna Ivanovik (second from right) of the OSCE Mission to Skopje's Gender Working Group leads a discussion on gender and diversity at a camp for young male leaders, Tajmiste, 2 July 2013.

OSCE Mission to Skopje leads gender working group in boys camp

For the second consecutive year the OSCE Mission to Skopje supported the Boys Camp Young Men Leadership Project, organized by YMCA Bitola and US Peace Corps in Tajmiste...

OSCE Mission to Skopje organizes public debate on private sector corruption

SKOPJE, 2 July 2013 – A public debate was held today in Skopje on the results of a survey on citizens' perceptions on corruption in the private sector and a qualitative analysis of preventative measures...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports police trainer development

The OSCE Mission to Skopje is organizing a training course on curriculum design for 15 police trainers from 24 to 28 June 2013...

Skopje city administrators to be trained on new assessment technique, with OSCE’s help

SKOPJE, 18 June 2013 – Staff at Skopje’s city administration will be introduced today to a new quality measurement standard aimed at improving work processes and professional performance at a training course initiated by the Ministry of Information Society and Administration and supported by the OSCE...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports workshops on local elections

Identifying lessons to be learned from the March local elections was the aim of four regional workshops for local election administration bodies organized from 13 to 18 June 2013 by the OSCE Mission to Skopje...
A student teacher on a pre-service placement with Roma children in Bitola in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 27 January 2010.

Students complete OSCE-supported teaching practice

Fourteen future teachers received certificates after completing a training course supported by the OSCE Mission to Skopje at a ceremony on 13 June 2013 in country’s eastern city of Shtip...
A training course for special police forces on hostage rescue operations, Skopje, 14 June 2013.

Hostage rescue training conducted by OSCE in Skopje for special police unit

A training course for special police forces on hostage rescue operations is taking place in Skopje from 10 to 14 June 2013. Experts from the French National Police will train 18 members of the Special Tasks Unit on how to deal with rescue situations in different types of locations and what to do to intercept vehicles used by armed criminals...
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