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OSCE Chairman-in-Office calls for active participation in Afghan elections

Publishing date: 8 October 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Democratization, Elections
SOFIA, 8 October 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, today issued the following statement: "October 9 is a historic day for the people of Afghanistan, who for the first time will be able to elect their own...

OSCE Skopje Mission and Council of Europe train lawyers on Strasbourg court procedures

Publishing date: 7 October 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Human rights
SKOPJE, 7 October 2004- A three-day training course aimed at familiarising lawyers with the European Convention on Human Rights and complaint procedures of the Strasburg-based European Court for Human Rights began today in Ohrid. Enabling lawyers to...

Ballots sent to By-mail voters for Kosovo's Assembly Election

Publishing date: 6 October 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Elections
PRISTINA, 6 October 2004- Ballots are on their way today to the 5,959 eligible voters who successfully applied in the By-mail voting programme for the 23 October Assembly election, according to an announcement by Kosovo's Central Election Commission...

OSCE Mission and Swedish Government to strengthen crime scene investigation capacity in Serbia

Publishing date: 4 October 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Policing
BELGRADE, 4 October 2004- Under an agreement signed today in Belgrade, Sweden will donate 1.35 million euros to Serbia's Interior Ministry to enhance its crime scene investigation capabilities. TheSwedish police will train 250 crime scene and forensic...

BiH elections mark progress towards democracy, international observers report

Publishing date: 3 October 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 3 October 2004- The municipal elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina yesterday were administered in line with international standards, taking into account the country's unique, post-war political system, concluded the International Election...

OSCE media freedom watchdog asks the US to abolish 'book embargo'

Publishing date: 30 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 30 September 2004- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media has asked the USA to abolish regulations that require publishers and authors to seek a licence from the Treasury Department to publish literature from Cuba, Iran and Sudan in...

Kosovo Assembly Election next step forward, says OSCE Mission Head

Publishing date: 22 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 22 September 2004- Kosovo is taking the next step in its political development as the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government conclude their first three years and the campaign to elect a new Assembly begins, said Pascal Fieschi, the Head...