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OSCE PA Working Group on Belarus Visits Minsk and Gomel

Publishing date: 29 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
MINSK, 28 May 2003- Three members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Working Group on Belarus, Ms. Uta Zapf (Germany), the Chair of the Group, Mr. Urban Ahlin (Sweden), and Lord Ponsonby (United Kingdom) visited Gomel and Minsk...

OSCE hosts workshop on media management in Kosovo

Publishing date: 26 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 26 May 2003- A five-day workshop on management and marketing skills for electronic and print media outlets has begun today in Kosovo...

OSCE Envoy urges Kyrgyzstan to become example of good governance for Central Asia

Publishing date: 21 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization
BISHKEK, 21 May 2003- The OSCE Chairman's Personal Envoy for Central Asia, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, urged the Kyrgyz government to renew dialogue with civil society and opposition forces in order to secure a peaceful transition...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office expresses distress about violence in Chechnya

Publishing date: 15 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism, National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 15 May 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has written to the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Igor Ivanov, to convey his distress about the recent acts of violence in the Russian...

Serbia and Kosovo media executives come together for first time in a decade

Publishing date: 6 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 6 May 2003- Leading editors-in-chief and media executives from Serbia and Kosovo will be gathering in Ohrid, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYROM), from 7 to 9 May. The conference, organized and financed by the OSCE Mission in...

Tajik journalists celebrate Press Freedom Day with OSCE Centre in Dushanbe

Publishing date: 5 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Media freedom and development
DUSHANBE, 5 May 2003- Some five hundred journalists from across Tajikistan gathered to celebrate World Press Freedom Day at a special event in Dushanbe on Saturday. The winners of a competition on how democratic and socio-economic reforms for...

Media freedom deteriorates in some OSCE States, says OSCE media watchdog

Publishing date: 2 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 2 May 2003- The general state of the media in OSCE participating States and the safety of journalists working in hostile environments will be two themes on which the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, will focus...