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Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office leaves for Belgrade today
Publishing date: 20 December 1996
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 20 December 1996-- Today former Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, accompanied by a delegation, left for a visit to Belgrade as Personal Representative...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office condemns Chechnya killings
Publishing date: 17 December 1996
BERN, 17 December 1996-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE was horrified to learn of the atrocious crime which claimed the lives of six International Red Cross medical aid workers as they were sleeping early this morning in Novye Atagi (Chechen Republic
OSCE Troika issues statement on Belarus
Publishing date: 3 December 1996
LISBON, 3 December 1996-- The OSCE Troika reaffirmed the widely shared conviction that the referendum of November 24 in Belarus was conducted in contradiction with the constitutional procedures... and cannot be considered as legitimate
OSCE Chairman-in-Office issues statement on Belarus
Publishing date: 30 November 1996
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
BERN, 30 November 1996-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Swiss Foreign Minister Flavio Cotti, issued the following statement today concerning developments in Belarus....
Statement of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on the situation in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Publishing date: 29 November 1996
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
BERN, 29 November 1996-- Upon invitation by the Yugoslav Government, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights provided a technical analysis of the elections for the Federal Assembly and of the first round of elections for municipal g
OSCE Secretary General travels to Minsk
Publishing date: 27 November 1996
VIENNA, 27 November 1996-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Swiss Foreign Minister Flavio Cotti, has decided to send the Secretary General of the OSCE, Ambassador Giancarlo Aragona, to Minsk,...
OSCE extends mandate of Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 21 November 1996
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
VIENNA, 21 November 1996-- The OSCE Permanent Council agreed today to extend the mandate of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina until December 1997. The decision was taken in...