News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE-supported training for crime scene investigators starts in Belgrade today
Publishing date: 9 October 2006
BELGRADE, 9 October 2006- A three-week specialized training on crime scene investigation for experts from Serbia's Interior Ministry was launched in Belgrade today. The initiative was facilitated by the OSCE Mission to Serbia...
OSCE Missions in Skopje and Belgrade organize evaluation training for police instructors
Publishing date: 9 October 2006
SKOPJE, 9 October 2006- Today, for the first time, instructors from the Police Academy in Skopje completed a training programme teaching them how to evaluate other instructors. The course was organized by the OSCE missions in Serbia and Skopje...
OSCE Mission welcomes deployment of domestic observers at constitutional referendum
Publishing date: 9 October 2006
BELGRADE, 9 October 2006- The OSCE Mission to Serbia welcomes the decision of the Republican Electoral Commission to enable domestic observation of the referendum on the new Serbian Constitution scheduled for 28 and 29 October....
OSCE Chairman shocked by murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya
Publishing date: 7 October 2006
BRUSSELS, 7 October 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, expressed profound shock today about the news of the murder of prominent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. "I condemn the murder...
"Group of Friends" formed to support higher education in Kosovo
Publishing date: 6 October 2006
PRISTINA, 6 October 2006- The development of the University of Pristina and Kosovo's higher education system were discussed today at a meeting organized by the OSCE Mission, the Council of Europe and the European University Association...
International economic rehabilitation programme to be launched in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict
Publishing date: 5 October 2006
TBILISI, 5 October 2006- A new international programme for economic rehabilitation of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone will be launched at an OSCE-chaired steering committee meeting in Tskhinvali tomorrow. Representatives of...
OSCE Centre, Interior Ministry organize community police days in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 4 October 2006
BISHKEK, 4 October 2006- Making sure residents get to better know community police officers working in their neighborhoods is the aim of a Police Day taking place in the northern Kyrguz town of Karakol today...