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OSCE begins monitoring of US elections

Publishing date: 10 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WASHINGTON, 10 October 2008- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights today opened a limited election observation mission to monitor the 4 November elections in the United States of America...

OSCE promotes implementation of OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security in Central Asia

Publishing date: 22 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 22 September 2008- Fostering co-operation among government ministries, parliamentarians and senior military personnel involved in the oversight of the armed forces in Central Asia is the purpose of an OSCE seminar that opened in Almaty today...

OSCE Centre in Ashgabad organizes workshop on railway safety and infrastructure planning

Publishing date: 14 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Economic activities
ASHGABAD, 14 September 2008- Sharing international best practices and technical expertise in the areas of railway safety and infrastructure planning was the focus of a four-day workshop which concluded in Ashgabad today.

Time to open new chapter in relations, OSCE human rights chief tells Russian officials

Publishing date: 9 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Elections
MOSCOW, 9 September 2008- The director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, today called for a new chapter to be opened in the relations between his office and the Russian...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports training of NGOs dealing with human trafficking issues

Publishing date: 22 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
SKOPJE, 22 August 2008- Increasing awareness of human rights and gender sensitivity among the NGOs dealing with human trafficking issues is the aim of a training course that begins in Skopje tomorrow...

OSCE Chairman welcomes OSCE States' decision for up to 100 monitors to Georgia

Publishing date: 19 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BRUSSELS, 19 August 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, issued the following statement on the OSCE Permanent Council's decision to increase the number of monitors to the Mission to Georgia by up to 100...

OSCE Secretary General visits Russia's North Ossetia

Publishing date: 17 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 18 August 2008- At the request of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut was in Vladikavkaz on Saturday and Sunday to meet refugees from South Ossetia and assess the humanitarian situation first-hand...