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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Aerial observation flights take place in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 18 October 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SARAJEVO, 18 October 2001 (OSCE)- The armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina have participated in two simultaneous experimental aerial observation flights which took place on 17 October 2001 in the Federation and Republika Srpska respectively...
Statement from OSCE Chairman-in-Office on the situation in Abkhazia
Publishing date: 17 October 2001
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
BUCHAREST, 17 October 2001 (OSCE)- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, expresses his concern about the recent developments in Georgia's breakaway...
OSCE steps up campaign against modern slavery in destination countries
Publishing date: 17 October 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights
BERLIN, 17 October 2001 (OSCE)- At a two-day OSCE conference on combating trafficking in human beings government representatives and international experts expressed determination to more effectively fight against this modern form of slavery.
Third anti-corruption seminar in Ukraine
Publishing date: 16 October 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Democratization
KYIV, 16 October 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine held the third seminar on "Strategies in the Fight against Corruption" on 15 and 16 October, in cooperation with the country's Public Prosecutor General.
OSCE and US-based institute on ethnic relations organize roundtable in Kosovo
Publishing date: 16 October 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
PRISTINA, 16 October 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the Project on Ethnic Relations are organizing a second round table to bring together Albanian, Serb and other ethnic community leaders. The Project on Ethnic Relations...
International effort and bilateral dialogue are recipe to solve Abkhazia crisis, says Georgian President
Publishing date: 16 October 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
TBILISI, 16 October 2001 (OSCE)- An 18-nation Delegation of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe met today with the President of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze, as a concluding note of a four-day visit to the country...
OSCE regrets missed opportunities to reform Albanian electoral system
Publishing date: 12 October 2001
Content type: Press statement
What we do: Elections
TIRANA, 12 October 2001 (OSCE)-- The following statement was made today by Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens, the Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, following the release of the OSCE report on the 24 June 2001 parliamentary elections in Albania...