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Croatian police show professionalism in handling ethnic incidents in Knin, says OSCE Mission
Publishing date: 4 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
ZAGREB, 4 April 2003- Croatian police have shown themselves professional and effective in their handling of recent isolated ethnic incidents in the Knin area which in turn should allay any fears in the community, said the Police Adviser of...
OSCE Skopje Mission co-organizes business training for young entrepreneurs in Kumanovo
Publishing date: 3 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 3 April 2003- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and a non-profit organization, the Southeast Europe Enterprise Development (SEED), will organize two youth entrepreneur workshops in Kumanovo on 4 and 7 April...
OSCE Mission in Belgrade holds co-ordination meeting on combating organized crime
Publishing date: 3 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights, Policing
BELGRADE, 3 April 2003- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro today brought together the donor community and the Serbian Justice and Interior Ministries on the issue of co-ordinating the fight against organized crime. The informal meeting...
Baku workshop discusses combating money laundering and terrorism financing
Publishing date: 31 March 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Countering terrorism
BAKU, 31 March 2003- Participants at Azerbaijan's first National Workshop on Combating Money Laundering and Suppressing Financing of Terrorism agreed on the need for effective measures to fight against those crimes. The two-day event, which...
OSCE Skopje Mission organizes youth leadership conference
Publishing date: 28 March 2003
SKOPJE, 28 March 2003- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and the Nansen Dialogue Centre will host their third joint Youth Leadership Conference from 28 to 30 March in the town of Mavrovo, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...
OSCE roundtable in Tajikistan focused on young people's access to information
Publishing date: 13 March 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Media freedom and development
GARM, TAJIKISTAN, 13 March 2003- Problems of young people relating to access to information and to the media were the main theme of a two-day OSCE roundtable organized in the Rasht Valley, eastern Tajikistan. This first roundtable on access...
Bussing children to mono-ethnic schools in BiH must stop, OSCE Mission says
Publishing date: 13 March 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
SARAJEVO, 13 March 2003- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has called for an end to the practice of bussing children to mono-ethnic schools, on the grounds that it hampers sustainable return and creates a financial...