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OSCE Chair sends Personal Representative to Montenegro
Publishing date: 16 October 2000
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization
VIENNA, 16 October 2000- The Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Fererro-Waldner, is sending her Personal Representative for Southeastern Europe, Ambassador Albert Rohan, to Montenegro...
OSCE to address controversial issue of Roma refugees and asylum seekers
Publishing date: 11 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Migration, National minority issues, Roma and Sinti
WARSAW, 11 October 2000- Every year, thousands of Roma, also known as Gypsies, from East Central and South Eastern Europe leave their homes and seek asylum, mostly in countries of Western Europe and North America...
OSCE Chair welcomes registration of opposition parties for elections in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 11 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Elections
VIENNA, 11 October 2000-- The Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, welcomes the decision of the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan...
OSCE PA President Adrian Severin meets political leaders in Cyprus
Publishing date: 9 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
LIMASSOL, CYPRUS, 9 October 2000- During the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Seminar on Organized Crime and Corruption held from 4-5 October, 2000 in Cyprus, President Adrian Severin met with the President of the Republic of Cyprus Mr. Glafcos Clerides and o
Experimental aerial observation flights in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 9 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
SARAJEVO, 9 October 2000- In co-operation with the two entity armed forces, the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson, the Czech Republic and Denmark, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina is organizing three simultaneous...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office welcomes the release of the British and Canadian detainees in Belgrade
Publishing date: 7 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Policing
VIENNA, 7 October 2000- The Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner has expressed her relief about the release of the three foreigners detained in Belgrade, two British members of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo
OSCE welcomes democratic change in Yugoslavia
Publishing date: 6 October 2000
VIENNA, 6 October 2000- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, expressed her satisfaction with the democratic change which took place last night in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...