News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Skopje Mission starts training police community relations co-ordinators
Publishing date: 10 November 2003
SKOPJE, 10 November 2003- Thirty-two police officers of mixed ethnicity and gender are attending their first day of OSCE training on community policing today in the Hotel Bistra in Mavrovo. The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje developed...
OSCE has critical role to play in new security environment- NATO Secretary General
Publishing date: 6 November 2003
VIENNA, 6 November 2003- NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson described the OSCE on Thursday as the standard bearer for human rights and fundamental freedoms and said the Organization had a critical role to play in the new security environment...
ICTY's Carla Del Ponte says OSCE could support truth and reconciliation commissions in south-eastern Europe
Publishing date: 4 November 2003
VIENNA, 4 November 2003- The Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte, suggested that the OSCE could play a role in creating truth and reconciliation commissions in the former Yugoslavia...
OSCE PA Working Group Chair visits Minsk
Publishing date: 1 November 2003
MINSK, 1 November 2003- The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Working Group on Belarus, Ms. Uta Zapf (Germany), visited Minsk from 30 October- 1 November. This visit was organized with the assistance of the OSCE Office in Minsk...
OSCE Kosovo Mission welcomes new leadership for local election operations body
Publishing date: 30 October 2003
PRISTINA, 30 October 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo today welcomed the approval by the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Adnan Merovci and Bogoljub Staletovic as chief executive officer and his deputy, respectively, of its permanent Secretariat...
President Bruce George to lead OSCE Observation of Georgian Elections
Publishing date: 29 October 2003
COPENHAGEN, 29 October 2003- The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, Bruce George, will arrive in Tbilisi on Thursday to lead the OSCE Observers for the Parliamentary Elections in Georgia, which will take place on Sunday 2 November...
OSCE Skopje Mission launches Ombudsperson media campaign
Publishing date: 24 October 2003
SKOPJE, 24 October 2003- An awareness-raising campaign aimed at bringing the Ombudsperson institution closer to the people through a series of media and promotional activities has been launched today in Skopje. "The Ombudsman is on your side...