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OSCE/ODIHR conference on jury trials in Kazakhstan opens in Astana

Publishing date: 27 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ASTANA/WARSAW, 27 September 2004- A two-day conference on the prospects for the introduction of jury trials in Kazakhstan opened today in the capital Astana. It brings together around 100 governmental officials, legal practitioners, academics and NGO...

OSCE Permanent Council honours victims of terrorism in Russia with minute's silence

Publishing date: 9 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 9 September 2004- The OSCE Permanent Council honoured the victims of a recent series of brutal terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation with a minute's silence on Thursday. After a number of heads of delegation expressed their sympathy and...

OSCE Chairmanship renews offer to help improve situation in Chechen Republic

Publishing date: 2 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
SOFIA, 2 September 2004- The OSCE's Bulgarian Chairmanship has again expressed its willingness to co-operate with the Russian Federation in improving the situation in the Chechen Republic. Ambassador Ivan Naydenov...

OSCE Chairman urges demilitarisation of Georgian-Ossetian conflict

Publishing date: 20 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SOFIA, 20 August 2004- OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy expressed concern over recent developments in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in messages to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity. In a

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
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues
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 Chairman stresses need for peaceful solution in Georgian-Ossetian conflict

Publishing date: 14 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
SOFIA, 14 July 2004- The OSCE's Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, stressed the need to find a peaceful solution to the Georgian-Ossetian conflict...

OSCE announces that confidence- and security-building agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina will end in September 2004

Publishing date: 24 June 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 23 June 2004- The Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO for Articles II and IV, General Claudio Zappulla, announced today that the Agreement on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in Bosnia and Herzegovina will end in September...