News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Kosovo Media Appeals Board reviews case of Epoka E Re vs. Temporary Media Commissioner
Publishing date: 16 August 2001
PRISTINA, 16 August 2001 (OSCE)- Today, the Kosovo Media Appeals Board met to consider the decision of the Temporary Media Commissioner on 20 February 2001 to impose on the owner(s) and publisher(s) of the newspaper \"Epoka E Re\"...
OSCE condemns irresponsible publication of personal data in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 9 August 2001
SARAJEVO, 9 August 2001 (OSCE)- On Monday, the Bosnia and Herzegovina daily Glas Srpski published a 12-page list of names provided by the Republika Srpska Government Documentation Centre in Banja Luka. The names purportedly belong to individuals...
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...
Freimut Duve: Russia allows a Tajik journalist to go back to his family
Publishing date: 12 July 2001
VIENNA, 12 July 2001 (OSCE)-- On 12 July, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on the recent case of Tajik journalist Dododjon Atovulloyev, detained at a Moscow airport...
Continued concern about harassment of media in Belarus
Publishing date: 22 June 2001
VIENNA, 22 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has noted the following cases of media harassment in Belarus:
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...
Albanian elections: Statement by Head of OSCE Presence
Publishing date: 19 June 2001
TIRANA, 19 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The following statement was made today by the Head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) Presence in Albania, Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens at a press conference in Tirana: