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OSCE Centre in Bishkek holds conference on transparent and effective budgeting

Publishing date: 25 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Economic activities
BISHKEK, 25 December, 2008- The OSCE Centre in Bishkek hosted a conference in Karokol today to discuss transparency in budgeting and the role of civil society and public hearings in drafting local budgets...

OSCE Mission condemns shooting incident in Georgia's Kvemo Khviti area

Publishing date: 10 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
TBILISI, 10 December 2008- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Georgia, Ambassador Terhi Hakala, condemned today's shooting by unknown assailants at an OSCE monitoring patrol near the administrative border of South Ossetia.

Serbian cadets graduate from new police training centre with OSCE Mission's support

Publishing date: 5 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Policing
BELGRADE, 5 December 2008- The first 129 cadets graduated from the newly established Basic Police Training Centre in Sremska Kamenica today. The OSCE Mission to Serbia supported...

OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports Kyrgyz police reforms to prevent torture

Publishing date: 4 December 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights, Policing
BISHKEK, 4 December 2008- Doing more to prevent the use of torture in law enforcement structures and raising awareness of human rights was the aim of a conference at the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry today...

OSCE media freedom representative asks Moldovan Parliament to improve draft state secrecy law

Publishing date: 26 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 26 November 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklós Haraszti, said today that the draft law on State Secrets of Moldova needs to be improved before it is adopted by Parliament...

OSCE Centre in Ashgabad organizes workshop on distribution of irrigation water

Publishing date: 24 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
ASHGABAD, 24 November 2008- Fourteen officials involved in Turkmenistan's water distribution are attending an OSCE-organized course today on the use of modern technology to ensure effective distribution of irrigation water...

OSCE Mission organizes study visit for Serbian journalists to ICTY, ICJ

Publishing date: 24 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Rule of law
BELGRADE, 24 November 2008- Eight editors and senior journalists from media outlets in south and southwest Serbia are in the Hague today on a study visit to learn more about the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia and...