Event archive

The November 1995 Human Dimension Seminar, held by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, focused on the rule of law, including its constitutional foundations, implementation and practical measures.

The OSCE Permanent Council admitted the country into the Organization as a full participating State, with the decision coming into effect two days later.

At a five-day Seminar on Rehabilitating the Environment, participants representing Central Asian States gave a detailed picture of the environmental challenges they faced.

A fact-finding mission set off for Croatia to look at possible OSCE contributions, to examine the need to establish a long-term mission, and to recommend concrete forms of co-operation with other international organizations in the country.

To continue work on developing a new security model, as decided by the Heads of State at the 1994 Budapest Summit, a seminar was held in Vienna on 18 and 19 September 1995.

High Commissioner Max van der Stoel sent a letter to Slovakia's Foreign Minister, Juraj Schenk, in which he put forth his ideas on the concept of alternative education for linguistically mixed regions.

A seminar organized by the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act.

The OSCE Troika in 1995 - the Foreign Ministers of Italy, Hungary and Switzerland - held their second meeting.

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Hungarian Foreign Minister László Kovács, condemned the Bosnian Serb takeover in Srebrenica, which began on 11 July.