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OSCE Centre in Astana launches series of local seminars on new Customs Code

Publishing date: 23 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities
KOSTANAY, Kazakhstan, 23 September 2010- The first in a series of OSCE-supported training seminars for local businesses, government and NGOs on a new Customs Code and the Customs Union between Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia was launched today...

OSCE Media freedom representative welcomes Russian Supreme Court's resolution on civil libel lawsuits

Publishing date: 21 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Democratization, Media freedom and development, Rule of law
VIENNA, 21 September 2010- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, welcomed today the adoption by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of a resolution that protects media in civil defamation lawsuits...

OSCE/ODIHR Director encouraged by further improvement in co-operation with Russia

Publishing date: 8 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
MOSCOW, 8 September 2010- Following talks today with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other senior officials and parliamentarians, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, said...

OSCE Centre summer course discusses criminal justice in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 30 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Human rights, Education, Rule of law
ASHGABAT, 30 July 2010- Twenty-five law-enforcement officers from across Turkmenistan took part in an OSCE summer course on international human rights standards in the administration of criminal justice which concludes today in Ashgabat...

Joint Statement by the Heads of Delegation of the Minsk Group Co-Chair countries

Publishing date: 16 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Newsroom
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
ALMATY, 17 July 2010- The Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, released the following...

OSCE role in conflict prevention and resolution should be enhanced, says Ukrainian Foreign Minister

Publishing date: 22 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 22 June 2010- Unresolved and potential conflicts pose the greatest threat to security in the OSCE region and form a serious challenge to the Organization's work, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko told the Permanent Council...

OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs issue statement

Publishing date: 21 June 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Moscow, Paris, Washington, 21 June 2010- The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Igor Popov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France, and Robert Bradtke of the United States, released the following statement today: