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OSCE Chairman-in-Office condemns kidnapping in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Publishing date: 30 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Countering terrorism, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
LISBON, 30 August 2002-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz, today condemned the kidnapping of civilians in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and called for their...

Last certification for municipal elections in Kosovo approved

Publishing date: 30 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Elections
PRISTINA, 30 August 2002- The citizens' initiative Coalition Return (KP), has been certified to participate in the 26 October Municipality Elections in Podujeva/Podujevo. The certification was decided in the Central Election Commission's (CEC)...

New Chairman of OSCE Permanent Council assumes duties on 1 September

Publishing date: 30 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 30 August 2002- Ambassador Francisco Seixas da Costa of Portugal has been appointed new Chairman of the 55-nation OSCE Permanent Council. Assuming his new duties on 1 September, Ambassador da Costa succeeds Ambassador Joao de Lima Pimentel...

Finnish MP Kiljunen to lead OSCE observation of Macedonian parliamentary elections

Publishing date: 29 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Elections
COPENHAGEN, 29 August 2002- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz, has appointed the Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Kimmo Kiljunen, MP (Finland), to act as his Special...

Chairman of OSCE Permanent Council condemns killing of Macedonian police officers as "cowardly act of violence"

Publishing date: 29 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Countering terrorism, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 29 August 2002- The Chairman of the OSCE Permanent Council today condemned in the strongest terms the killing of two Macedonian police officers on 26 August in a drive-by shooting near the town of Gostivar. "We condemn in the strongest terms...

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...