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Bosnia High Representative Ashdown concerned about risk of economic crisis

Publishing date: 4 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 4 June 2003- Lord Ashdown, the High Representative and European Union Special Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), said on Wednesday he was seriously concerned about the risk of economic crisis in the country...

Chair-in-Office De Hoop Scheffer to address 12th OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session in Rotterdam

Publishing date: 3 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Secretariat
COPENHAGEN, 3 June 2003- From 5 to 9 July 2003 more than three hundred parliamentarians from the 55 OSCE participating States will gather on the premises of the Doelen Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for the Twelfth Annual Session...

OSCE Mission and Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights reject contradiction over tenancy rights figures

Publishing date: 2 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues
ZAGREB, 2 June 2003- The OSCE Mission to Croatia and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights have clarified the background to the figures recently presented in the media or attributed to these organizations in relation to the number of terminated...

OSCE supports first international mine clearance project in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 29 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
DUSHANBE, 29 May 2003- An agreement to start the first internationally supported mine clearance operations in Tajikistan was signed today in the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe, clearing the way for a nation-wide Mine Action Project to start in June...

Armenian elections show improvement over presidential voting, but fail to meet international standards in key areas

Publishing date: 26 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Elections
YEREVAN, 26 May 2003- Sunday's parliamentary elections in Armenia marked an improvement over the recent presidential voting, but failed to meet international standards in several key areas, concluded an international observation mission.

OSCE Mission organizes training programme for trial observers in Skopje

Publishing date: 21 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
SKOPJE, 21 May 2003- More than 60 advocates, lawyers, law students and human rights activists will join a training programme in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on the background and the techniques of trial observation. The training...

Chairman-in-Office urges OSCE States to take concrete steps in fight against trafficking

Publishing date: 20 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
PRAGUE, 20 May 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has called on OSCE States at the 11th OSCE Economic Forum to identify concrete steps to better fight trafficking...