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Representatives of minorities engage in discussions during a workshop on the rights of national minorities, Yerevan, 27 April 2012.

OSCE Office in Yerevan organizes workshop on rights of national minorities

YEREVAN, 27 April 2012 – A workshop by the OSCE Office in Yerevan on the rights of national minorities as envisaged in international and national legislation and measures to raise awareness of the issue among politicians, the media and the general public was held today in Yerevan... ()

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities to visit Moldova

CHIŞINĂU, 12 March 2012 – The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek will visit Moldova from 13 to 16 March 2012. His visit focuses on issues of integration, education, language and Gagauz autonomy... ()
The Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Edward Joseph, at a press conference to launch a traffic safety campaign organised by the OSCE Mission, in co-operation with Kosovo police, Prishtine/Pristina, 26 October 2011.

OSCE Mission in Kosovo condemns desecration of Jewish cemetery

PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 2 December 2011 - Acting Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Edward P. Joseph, condemned today the recent desecration of the Jewish Cemetery in Prishtinë/Priština, calling on law enforcement to investigate, and the municipality to repair the damage... ()
Knut Vollebaek, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorites (c); Dimitrios Kypreos, Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia (r); and Jeroen deVries, OSCE municipal co-ordinator in Bujanovac (l), attend the opening of the first multilingual and multi-ethnic university department in Bujanovac, 28 October 2011.

OSCE welcomes opening of multilingual university department in south Serbia

BUJANOVAC, Serbia, 28 October 2011 – The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Dimitrios Kypreos, today attended the opening of the first multilingual and multi-ethnic university department in Bujanovac...
Uri Rosenthal, Foreign Minister of the Netherlands (c), presenting the Max van der Stoel Award to Sasho Stojkovski (r), Executive Director of the Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje (NDC Skopje), and Veton Zekoli (l), Project Manager at NDC Skopje, at the Max van der Stoel ceremony, The Hague, 24 October 2011.

Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje wins Max van der Stoel Award 2011

THE HAGUE, 24 October 2011 – The International Jury of the Max van der Stoel Award today awarded its 2011 prize to the Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje (NDC Skopje) for its outstanding work to promote integrated education and improve co-operation between ethnic communities...

Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje to receive 2011 Max van der Stoel Award

THE HAGUE, 11 October 2011 – The Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje will receive the 2011 Max van der Stoel Award at a ceremony on Monday, 24 October in The Hague...
The OSCE's High Commissioner on National Minorities, Knut Vollebaek (centre), speaks with ODIHR's Senior Adviser on Roma and Sinti Issues, Andrzej Mirga, during the first day of the OSCE's Review Conference, Warsaw, 30 September 2010.

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities warns against rise of anti-Roma violence and extreme nationalism in Europe

THE HAGUE, 10 October 2011 – OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek issued the following statement today...
File photo: Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia.

Statement by the Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia on developments in South Serbia

BELGRADE, 8 September 2011 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, made the following statement today... ()
President of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbaeva (r), Vice Prime-Minister of Kyrgyzstan Shamil Atakhanov (c) and Head of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek Ambassador Andrew Tesoriere, at the opening of the regional conference on the rights of ethnic minorities, Bishkek, 21 June 2011.

OSCE and UN promote dialogue on ethnic minorities in Central Asia

BISHKEK, 21 June 2011 - A two-day regional conference on the rights of minorities started in Bishkek today. The conference is organized jointly by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the Central Asian Regional Representation of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia... ()
Ambassador Philip N. Remler, Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova. 28 March 2011.

OSCE Mission to Moldova welcomes registration of Muslim community, calls for religious tolerance

CHISINAU, 27 May 2011 - Today the OSCE Mission to Moldova welcomed recent registration of the first Muslim organization in Moldova but also expressed concerns about recent manifestations of intolerance and urged Moldova to maintain its commitment to religious tolerance... ()
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