News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Co-ordinator for Belarusian election observation concludes visit to Belarus
Publishing date: 29 August 2001
MINSK, 29 August, 2001 (OSCE)-- Kimmo Kiljunen MP (Finland), the Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, visited Minsk on 28 and 29 August 2001. Mr. Kiljunen has been named by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office as Special Co-ordinator...
Freimut Duve: independent newspaper confiscated in Belarus
Publishing date: 21 August 2001
VIENNA, 21 August 2001 (OSCE)-- On 17 August, 400,000 copies of a special issue of the independent Belarus newspaper Nasha Svaboda were confiscated at the private publishing house Magic in Minsk by police from the Committee for Financial...
International students' summer work camp concludes work in Armenia
Publishing date: 9 August 2001
YEREVAN, 9 August 2001 (OSCE)- For the second consecutive year the OSCE Office in Yerevan has supported an international summer work camp in Armenia. This grass root project introduced and implemented by Voluntary Service of Armenia...
Kosovo voter services to begin on Monday, 30 July
Publishing date: 27 July 2001
PRISTINA, 27 July 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo is going to update the province\'s voters\' list in a six-week exercise that begins on Monday, 30 July. The Mission\'s office for voter services is setting up 48 sites across Kosovo...
Out-of-Kosovo voter registration for Kosovo elections gets go-ahead
Publishing date: 16 July 2001
PRISTINA, 16 July 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo welcomes the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding that will allow the start of voter registration for the November Kosovo elections in Serbia proper...
Kosovo Election Commission adopts rule on role of media in upcoming elections
Publishing date: 13 July 2001
PRISTINA, 13 July 2001 (OSCE)-- Kosovo\'s Central Election Commission, chaired by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Daan Everts, yesterday passed a rule on the role of the media in the electoral campaign during the run-up to the November polls...
Paris declaration calls for more oversight and accountability in the OSCE
Publishing date: 10 July 2001
PARIS, 10 July 2001 (OSCE)-- Nearly three hundred parliamentarians from fifty-two OSCE countries adopted today the Paris Declaration which includes a unanimously adopted resolution on strengthening transparency and accountability in the OSCE...