News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister elaborates on bid for 2009 OSCE Chairmanship
Publishing date: 27 October 2006
VIENNA, 27 October 2006- The Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, Kassymzhomart Tokaev, urged the OSCE participating States today to back his country in its bid for the Chairmanship of the Organization in 2009. Addressing the Permanent Council...
OSCE media watchdog presents report on anomalies in accrediting journalists
Publishing date: 25 October 2006
VIENNA, 25 October 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, presented a special report today on the administrative problems journalists have recently faced in several countries of the OSCE region. The paper...
OSCE, UNODC Vienna workshop focuses on combating illicit drug threat
Publishing date: 24 October 2006
VIENNA, 24 October 2006- Experts from the OSCE and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime will discuss the role of international co-operation in combating illicit drug trafficking at a meeting that began in Vienna today. The event...
OSCE Office Head meets Armenian Parliament Speaker, discusses electoral reform and media legislation
Publishing date: 19 October 2006
YEREVAN, 19 October 2006- The Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Vladimir Pryakhin, discussed today with Tigran Torosyan, the Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly, the electoral reform and amendments to the law on TV and Radio...
OSCE Mission to Skopje organizes discussions across the country on education and decentralization
Publishing date: 14 October 2006
SKOPJE, 14 October 2006- Improving rural children's access to education, increasing parents' participation in decision-making and improving relations among stakeholders involved in education...
More co-operation needed to avoid fires in Nagorno-Karabakh region, OSCE-led expert mission finds
Publishing date: 13 October 2006
YEREVAN, 13 October 2006- An OSCE-led team of international and local experts today called for more co-operation to prevent and manage fires in and around Nagorno-Karabakh following the end of a 10-day mission to assess the environmental...
OSCE Chairman expresses serious regrets at the failure of Joint Control Commission meeting on Georgian-Ossetian conflict
Publishing date: 13 October 2006
BRUSSELS, 13 October 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today said he seriously regretted that the meeting of the four-party Joint Control Commission on the resolution of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict failed...