News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Skopje Mission supports development of Ombudsman Institution
Publishing date: 16 March 2006
SKOPJE, 16 March 2006- Improving management skills of the personnel in the Ombudsman Office was the aim of a training course, which ended today in Skopje. The event, part of a project implemented by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje...
OSCE Office trains women in Azerbaijan in strategic planning
Publishing date: 15 March 2006
BAKU, 15 March 2006- An OSCE-supported workshop aimed at helping non-governmental organizations define their mission goals and translate their visions into mission statements and realistic objectives concluded today in Baku...
OSCE Centre to hold meeting on draft law on combating money-laundering and financing of terrorism
Publishing date: 13 March 2006
ALMATY, 13 March 2006- The OSCE Centre in Almaty will organize a roundtable discussion of the Kazakh draft law on combating money-laundering and the financing of terrorism, in Astana on 16 March. The event...
OSCE Chairman regrets death of Milosevic could mean no closure for victims
Publishing date: 11 March 2006
SALZBURG, 11 March 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, said today he regretted that the death of the former Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, would likely mean no conclusion to his trial for crimes against...
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs urge Armenia and Azerbaijan to prepare their respective publics "for peace, not for war"
Publishing date: 9 March 2006
WASHINGTON, D.C., 9 March 2006- The three Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which deals with the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, have issued a statement regretting the lack of forward movement in negotiations and calling upon Armenia and Azerbaijan...
OSCE media watchdog calls on Romania to drop leak cases against journalists
Publishing date: 8 March 2006
VIENNA, 8 March 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklós Haraszti, has written to Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, urging authorities to do everything in their power to drop charges against two journalists...
OSCE Office launches essay competition for Armenian students on gender issues
Publishing date: 7 March 2006
YEREVAN, 7 March 2006- The role of women in decision-making will be the theme of a student essay competition that will be launched tomorrow by the OSCE Office in Yerevan. Organized in co-operation with the Centre for the Development of Civil Society...