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OSCE Secretary General outlines Organization's response to new threats to security

Publishing date: 11 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Partnerships, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights, Countering terrorism
NEW YORK, 11 April 2003- OSCE Secretary General Jan Kubis outlined the 55-nation security organization's response to new threats to peace and security at a meeting at the United Nations Security Council on Friday. Addressing a high-level...

OSCE welcomes Afghanistan as new Partner for Co-operation

Publishing date: 4 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council, OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 4 April 2003- The OSCE, the world's largest regional security organization, has agreed to establish formal links, under its Partner for Co-operation scheme, with the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, to assist that country meet...

OSCE CiO urges all parties to keep momentum in solving Transdniestrian issue

Publishing date: 3 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
CHISINAU, 3 April 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, urged President Vladimir Voronin and Foreign Minister Nicolae Dudau of Moldova and the Transdniestrian leader Igor Smirnov to keep the...

Tajik conference prepares for 2005 general elections

Publishing date: 3 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Elections
DUSHANBE, 3 April 2003- A conference held today in the Tajik capital focused on the country's preparations for parliamentary elections to be held in 2005. Participants at the event, which was organized by the Tajik Parliament with support from...

OSCE welcomes progress in reforming Albania's election law, urges swift resolution on remaining issues

Publishing date: 1 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Elections
TIRANA, 1 April 2003- The OSCE Presence in Albania and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) welcome the consensual agreement by the bi-partisan committee of the Albanian parliament on improvements to the...

Head of OSCE Centre in Dushanbe welcomes new Tajik barristers' association

Publishing date: 31 March 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
DUSHANBE, 31 March 2003- Ambassador Marc Gilbert, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe, welcomed the establishment of a Tajik Barristers' Association that will promote lawyers' activity and help counterbalance other parts of the legal...

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President to meet officials in Rome

Publishing date: 27 March 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 27 March 2003- At the invitation of the Head of the Italian Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA), Marcello Pacini, the President of the OSCE PA, Bruce George, will pay a visit to Rome...