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OSCE calls on Yugoslav authorities to grant access to detained OSCE staff
Publishing date: 4 August 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Policing
VIENNA, 4 August 2000- The OSCE Chairmanship today called the Chargé d\'Affaires a.i. of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Vienna to the Austrian Foreign Ministry...
Regional Stability Pact Co-ordinator on Trafficking visits Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 28 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
SARAJEVO, 28 July 2000- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina hosted a visit of Dr Helga Konrad, the Regional Coordinator of the Stability Pact Task Force on Trafficking in Human Beings.
Freimut Duve accused by Belgrade government of being a "German agent"
Publishing date: 27 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 27 July 2000-- Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, is dismayed by the sentencing of a Serbian journalist, Miroslav Filipovic, to seven years in prison on 26 July 2000 by the Nis military court.
OSCE Swiss Headquarters Support Unit starts to pull out of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 27 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
SARAJEVO, 27 July 2000- The Swiss Headquarters Support Unit, the main provider of logistic support to the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, is leaving the area after four years
Moldova Focus of OSCE CiO Meeting with Yevgeniy Primakov
Publishing date: 26 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
VIENNA, 26 July 2000-- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Yevgeniy M. Primakov, Chairman of the Russian Federation State Commission on Transdniestria met today in Vienna.
Certification period for independent candidates in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended
Publishing date: 21 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 21 July 2000-- As stipulated by the Provisional Election Commission (PEC), the Independent Candidate certification period ended yesterday...
Tomorrow OSCE commemorates 25th Anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act
Publishing date: 18 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 18 July 2000-- Tomorrow, 19 July, the Austrian Chairmanship of the OSCE will pay tribute to the signing of the Final Act of the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE)