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Recommendations adopted at Free Media conference
Publishing date: 2 March 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 2 March 2001- The Conference on Free Media in South Eastern Europe, organized by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, the Council of Europe and the OSCE Mission to Croatia, ended Friday
Kosovo human rights workshop focuses on role of Ombudsperson
Publishing date: 2 March 2001
PRISTINA, 2 March 2001-- A workshop that aimed to inform NGOs on the work of the Ombudsperson Institution has been held in Prishtinë/Pristina. It was organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)...
Free media conference opens in Zagreb
Publishing date: 1 March 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 1 March 2001-- The President of Croatia, Stjepan Mesic, called on media in South-Eastern Europe to be free of politics and said journalists should work to rehabilitate the "partly compromised" profession...
Attack on Croatian journalists condemned
Publishing date: 1 March 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 1 March 2001-- Participants in the OSCE-Council of Europe conference on 'Free Media in South-Eastern Europe' in Zagreb released the following statement upon learning of an attack on two Croatian journalists:
UN visit to OSCE Permanent Council: Kosovo elections expected in 2001
Publishing date: 1 March 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
VIENNA, 1 March 2001-- In his first address to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, the new Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General, Hans Haekkerup, stated his intentions to hold Kosovo-wide election this year...
Posavina canton signs on to OSCE Administration Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 1 March 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 1 March 2001- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina will formally sign a memorandum of understanding with the Posavina Canton to commence implementation of the OSCE Cantonal Administration Project (CAP)...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office pleased with efforts to resolve conflict in Georgia
Publishing date: 1 March 2001
TBILISI, 1 March 2001- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, today expressed his satisfaction with the positive developments...