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OSCE Office helps launch environmental education programme for schoolchildren in Armenia
Publishing date: 13 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
YEREVAN, 12 August 2004- The OSCE Office in Yerevan launched today an environmental education programme for schoolchildren which will help increase environmental awareness and contribute to environmental education in Armenia...
OSCE Chairman concerned over Transdniestria schools issue in Moldova
Publishing date: 11 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
SOFIA, 11 August 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy said today he is following with great concern the developments in Moldova, related to the settlement of the Transdniestrian conflict. "Finding a solution to the Moldovan Latin script...
OSCE Skopje Mission and Italian Embassy assist Border Police modernisation
Publishing date: 10 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SKOPJE, 10 August 2004- Over 60,000 Euros worth of computer equipment for the Border Police has been handed over to the Interior Ministry in Skopje today. The equipment will enable border police offices in the south and the east of the country to...
OSCE Chairman believes time ripe for transforming Organization to meet changed political realities
Publishing date: 9 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
VIENNA, 9 August 2004- In a letter sent at the start of the OSCE's traditional summer break, the Chairman-in-Office, Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, has signalled his intention to try and push through various reforms, in order to...
OSCE Skopje Mission helps keep borders open but safe
Publishing date: 6 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 6 August 2004- A second generation of 279 Border Police Officers graduated today from the Idrizovo Police Academy, which is supported by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. As former members of the Defence Ministry's Border Brigade...
OSCE Centre training helps Uzbek law enforcement bodies to fight human trafficking
Publishing date: 3 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
TASHKENT, 3 August 2004- The OSCE Centre in Tashkent launched the first specialized training course for law enforcement agencies on investigating human trafficking crimes. The five-day session brings together 25 experts from Uzbekistan's law...
OSCE workshop focuses on generating income from tourism in Central Asia
Publishing date: 23 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 23 July 2004- A two-day OSCE workshop that focused on generating income from Central Asia's tourism sector through the development of small and medium-sized enterprises has just ended today in Kazakhstan...