News and press releases

WASHINGTON, 7 February 2002- The fight against terrorism and the role of the Organization for Security and Co-operation topped the agenda of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office's visit to New York and Washington D.C...

DUSHANBE, 6 February 2002- A round table meeting organized by the OSCE and the Tajik Government on 1 February in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, concluded that the situation regarding the freedom of religion and belief was in general acceptable...

VIENNA, 6 February 2002- Ambassador Liviu Bota, Head of the Permanent Mission of Romania to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Chairman of the OSCE Permanent Council in 2001, has been awarded...

PRISTINA, 4 February 2002- The Kosovo Judicial Institute is holding a one-day information session on issues related to corruption. The meeting, to which Kosovo criminal law judges and prosecutors have been invited, will focus on how the judiciary...

LISBON, 22 January 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Ministerial Troika, which met yesterday in Lisbon, supported new measures to tackle the roots of terrorism, while at the same time urging its 55 participating States to safeguard traditional human rights...

SKOPJE, 18 January 2002- At the end of a two-day visit to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Portugal's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jaime Gama, indicated that his meetings with the Government in Skopje...

VIENNA, 17 January 2002- The new OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, today announced in his first speech to the Organization's 55-nation Permanent Council that the fight against terrorism will be one of OSCE's priorities