News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Third phase of multi-ethnic police training in southern Serbia to begin 6 August
Publishing date: 6 July 2001
BELGRADE, 6 July 2001 (OSCE)-- The third phase of the multi-ethnic police training programme in southern Serbia will start on 6 August 2001. In the space of 12 months, 400 police officers will be trained and deployed...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office addresses 10th annual meeting of the Organization's Parliamentary Assembly
Publishing date: 6 July 2001
PARIS, 6 July 2001 (OSCE)- Addressing the 10th annual meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA), the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Mircea Geoana, stressed that the ten years of activities of the PA reflected ten years of dramatic change in Europe...
Reforms of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity budgets necessary
Publishing date: 3 July 2001
SARAJEVO, 3 July 2001 (OSCE)- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the High Representative express their deep concern about the state of public finances and the existing mechanisms of control...
Bosnia and Herzegovina: transfer of Karadzic and Mladic "obligatory under international law"
Publishing date: 2 July 2001
SARAJEVO, 2 July 2001 (OSCE)- The transfer of indicted war criminals such as Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic is an obligation under international law and no separate entity law is required, said Robert Beecroft, Head of the OSCE Mission...
Chairman-in-Office welcomes transfer of Milosevic to The Hague
Publishing date: 29 June 2001
BUCHAREST, 29 June 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, welcomes the transfer of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia...
OSCE calls on parties in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to put aside their differences
Publishing date: 21 June 2001
VIENNA, 21 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, today appealed to all parties in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to put aside their differences and make a real effort to compromise...
OSCE Ministerial Troika meets in Bucharest
Publishing date: 21 June 2001
BUCHAREST, 21 June 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Ministerial Troika, represented by the Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, the Secretary General of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Albert Rohan, and the Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, met...