News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
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:
Political Independence of Radio Television Kosovo "crucial and huge step forward"
Publishing date: 30 May 2001
PRISTINA, 30 May 2001 (OSCE)-- A new regulation establishing Radio Television Kosovo (RTK) as the sole public service broadcaster in the province, has been described by Daan Everts, OSCE Mission Head, as \"crucial\" for the people in Kosovo...
Concern over attack against Cyprus daily
Publishing date: 25 May 2001
VIENNA, 25 May 2001 (OSCE)-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, is very much concerned about a recent attack against the independent daily newspaper \'Avrupa\' in the northern part of Cyprus. As a result of a bomb explosion...