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Nine municipalities complete improvement project in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Publishing date: 29 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 29 August 2002-- Nine municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina will receive in the coming weeks a Certificate of Recognition for having completed the OSCE Mission's Municipal Infrastructure Finance and Implementation programme...

Albania "in forefront of reform", outgoing OSCE mission head says

Publishing date: 29 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, Permanent Council
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 29 August 2002- Albania has made encouraging progress during the last three years and is, in some respects, in the forefront of reform in south-east Europe, Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens said in his End-of-Mission address to...

Largest pan-European human rights conference convenes in Warsaw

Publishing date: 28 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights, Elections
WARSAW, 28 August 2002- More than 500 government representatives, international experts and human rights activists will gather in Warsaw from 9 to 19 September to attend Europe's largest human rights and democratization conference. The...

OSCE Mission condemns killing of two police reservists in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Publishing date: 26 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SKOPJE, 26 August 2002- Ambassador Craig Jenness, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, strongly condemned the killing of two police reservists Monday night in Gostivar. "We deeply regret this criminal act and express our sincere condolences...

OSCE-supervised melange project in Georgia successfully concluded

Publishing date: 16 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Arms control, Democratization, Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
TBILISI, 16 August 2002- The Melange project, an OSCE-supervised project aimed at producing fertilizer from highly explosive missile fuel in Georgia, has been successfully concluded. "The international co-operation of German experts with local...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office expresses serious concern at increased tension between Georgia and Russian Federation

Publishing date: 2 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 2 August 2002- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Portuguese Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz, has expressed his serious concern over the current escalation of tension...

Clock starts running on 1 August for Croatian Government's action on property repossession

Publishing date: 1 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ZAGREB, 1 August 2002- Legal provisions coming into effect today set a series of deadlines for the Croatian Government to promptly return occupied private properties to their owners...