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OSCE Mission supports strengthened dialogue between Serbia's security sector and journalists
BELGRADE, 6 October 2008 - Eighteen journalists visited the Serbia's Security-Information Agency (BIA) offices in Belgrade today as part of an OSCE Mission-supported course on security sector reform...
OSCE to help Armenian Ombudsman office monitor situation in the armed forces
YEREVAN, 6 October 2008 - Increasing democratic control over the country's armed forces is the aim of an agreement signed by the OSCE Office and the Armenian Human Rights Defender's Office (Ombudsman) in Yerevan today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator helps discharged Ukrainian military pilots and staff find new opportunities
NIZHYN, Ukraine, 22 July 2008 - A joint project by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator and the Ukrainian Defence Ministry for former military pilots and technical staff has helped the latest participants, who graduated today, to get jobs...
OSCE Mission signs memorandum of understanding with Georgian Defence Ministry
TBILISI, 4 July 2008 - The OSCE Mission and the Georgian Defence Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding today on implementing a three-year demilitarization plan...
OSCE launches handbook on protecting human rights of armed forces personnel
VIENNA, 26 May 2008 - The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will launch a handbook aimed at improving the protection of human rights of soldiers and other armed forces personnel on Wednesday in Vienna...
OSCE security sector commitments to be focus of Montenegro seminar
PODGORICA, 26 September 2007 - Fostering co-operation among parliamentarians, government departments and senior military personnel involved in the oversight of the armed forces will be the focus of an OSCE seminar that opens tomorrow in Podgorica...
OSCE helps discharged Ukrainian military find new job opportunities
NIZHYN, Ukraine, 4 September 2007 -Former military staff are primed to find new work in the civilian sector thanks to a project to retrain and provide job assistance to discharged military personnel supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine...
Democratic control of armed forces discussed at OSCE conference in Baku
BAKU, 3 August 2007 - The principles of democratic control of the armed forces and ways to address the welfare needs of Azerbaijan's service personnel were the focus of an OSCE meeting that ended in Baku today...
OSCE Centre in Astana promotes regional confidence- and security-building measures
ALMATY, 16 July 2007 - Implementing confidence- and security-building measures in compliance with the Vienna Document 1999 is the main topic of a regional training course that began in Almaty today.
OSCE Chairman calls for renewed efforts to address CFE Treaty concerns
MADRID, 14 July 2007 - The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, said today he had taken note, with concern, of Russia's decision to suspend its participation in the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe...