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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Annual OSCE Economic Forum to focus on environment
Publishing date: 19 May 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
VIENNA, 19 May 1999-- The Seventh Economic Forum of the OSCE will take place in Prague from 25 to 28 May. The Forum will consist of two separate but linked events: a meeting on...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities addresses Permanent Council
Publishing date: 12 May 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Permanent Council
What we do: Human rights
THE HAGUE, 12 May 1999-- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Max van der Stoel, reported to the Permanent Council today on his visit to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on May 9-11....
OSCE Ministerial Troika ready for responsibilities in political settlement in Kosovo
Publishing date: 28 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Troika, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 28 April 1999- The OSCE Ministerial Troika expresses the readiness of the OSCE to serve as a coordinating framework and to take on substantial responsibility for the implementation of a political settlement in Kosovo...
OSCE journalism prize awarded to Christiane Amanpour
Publishing date: 23 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Media freedom and development
COPENHAGEN, 23 April 1999- The Leadership of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, meeting today in Copenhagen, has awarded the 1999 OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy to the international reporter, Christiane Amanpour.
OSCE supports UN Secretary General on Kosovo
Publishing date: 23 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 23 April 1999-- The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe expressed strong support for the recent statement made by the Secretary General of the United Nations on the crisis in Kos
OSCE KVM documents human rights violations committed in Kosovo
Publishing date: 20 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
SKOPJE, 20 April 1999-- OSCE KVM Human Rights staff previously working in Kosovo are conducting in-depth interviews with victims and witnesses regarding alleged human rights violations, covering the period 20 March 1999 onwards....
OSCE KVM helps with refugee registration
Publishing date: 9 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Migration
PRISTINA, 9 April 1999-- The pace of registering ethnic Albanian refugees in the Stenkovac camps to make them ready for airlifts to sanctuary countries is rapidly increasing, and is expected soon to reach 2000 persons a day....