News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE project in Ukraine helps military officers acquire new skills to find jobs
Publishing date: 15 December 2005
KYIV, 15 December 2005- Sixty Ukrainian military officers graduated today in the city of Khmelnytskyi after completing OSCE courses, designed to help them develop new professional skills. "As part of the ongoing reform of the country's Armed Forces...
OSCE Centre organizes workshop in Ashgabad on combating financing of terrorism
Publishing date: 14 December 2005
ASHGABAD, 14 December 2005- Legal and administrative tools to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism are the focus of a workshop which today opened in Ashgabad. The two-day event...
OSCE Office awards journalists for environmental reporting in Armenia
Publishing date: 13 December 2005
YEREVAN, 13 December 2005- Eleven journalists from different regions of Armenia were on Monday awarded for reporting on environmental issues at an annual competition organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the Aarhus...
OSCE Office opens public environmental information centre in Armenia's remote Syunik district
Publishing date: 12 December 2005
YEREVAN, 12 December 2005- The OSCE Office in Yerevan opened an Aarhus public information Centre in the capital of the remote Syunik province, Kapan. "The OSCE attaches high importance to...
Graduates of OSCE Mission's entrepreneur programme in Serbia visit business institutions
Publishing date: 12 December 2005
BELGRADE, 12 December 2005- Thirty graduates of the Young Entrepreneurial Spirit (YES) programme from all over Serbia today exchanged business ideas with representatives of the Serbian Development Fund and the Pro Credit Bank in Belgrade...
Counter-terrorism: OSCE holds workshop in Almaty on travel document security
Publishing date: 9 December 2005
ALMATY, 9 December 2005- The first Central Asian regional workshop on the handling and issuance of travel documents co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Almaty and the OSCE Secretariat's Action against Terrorism Unit (ATU) and hosted by the Kazakh...
OSCE Mission presents Kosovo prime minister with handbook for human rights action plans
Publishing date: 9 December 2005
PRISTINA, 9 December 2005- On the eve of International Human Rights Day, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Finnish Human Rights Support Programme (FHRSP) presented the Prime Minister of...