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Press statements of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Intense public discussion on future of Czech television
Publishing date: 11 January 2001
What we do: Democratization, Media pluralism
Location: Czech Republic
VIENNA, 11 January 2001-- Today at the Meeting of the Permanent Council Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomed that the current dispute on the future of Czech Television...
Continued concern about investigation of missing Ukrainian journalist
Publishing date: 8 February 2001
What we do: Safety of journalists
Location: Ukraine
VIENNA, 8 February 2001-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of Media, reported today to the OSCE Permanent Council on the disappearance of Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze last September...
"Censorship by killing" must end
Publishing date: 14 February 2001
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 14 February 2001-- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has issued a call for OSCE participating States put an end to "censorship by killing,"...
Free media conference opens in Zagreb
Publishing date: 1 March 2001
ZAGREB, 1 March 2001-- The President of Croatia, Stjepan Mesic, called on media in South-Eastern Europe to be free of politics and said journalists should work to rehabilitate the "partly compromised" profession...
Attack on Croatian journalists condemned
Publishing date: 1 March 2001
What we do: Human rights
ZAGREB, 1 March 2001-- Participants in the OSCE-Council of Europe conference on 'Free Media in South-Eastern Europe' in Zagreb released the following statement upon learning of an attack on two Croatian journalists:
Recommendations adopted at Free Media conference
Publishing date: 2 March 2001
What we do: Human rights
ZAGREB, 2 March 2001- The Conference on Free Media in South Eastern Europe, organized by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, the Council of Europe and the OSCE Mission to Croatia, ended Friday
OSCE steps up efforts to promote freedom of expression
Publishing date: 14 March 2001
VIENNA, 14 March 2001- Freedom of expression, one of the basic tenets of the OSCE, was in the spotlight of a special OSCE meeting which closed yesterday....
Representative on Freedom of the Media to visit Belarus end of April
Publishing date: 21 March 2001
What we do: Democratization, Media laws, Media pluralism
Location: Belarus
VIENNA, 21 March 2001-- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of Media, Freimut Duve has agreed with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Belarus Mikhail Khvostov, that his proposed visit to the Republic of Belarus...
Concern over the conflict in Bulgarian state radio
Publishing date: 27 March 2001
What we do: Media pluralism, Safety of journalists
Location: Bulgaria
VIENNA, 27 March 2001-- On 21 March, Bulgarian police entered the premises of Bulgarian National Radio and barred the station\'s journalists from their studios. The journalists were protesting the appointment of a new Executive Director
Skopje media commended for restraint
Publishing date: 27 March 2001
What we do: Media pluralism
Location: North Macedonia
VIENNA, 27 March 2001-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomed the restraint and level of responsibility of the media in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in reporting the current conflict