News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE's Skopje mission to co-organize training workshop on human trafficking
Publishing date: 15 April 2003
SKOPJE, 15 April 2003- A three day training workshop to be held in Ohrid this week will bring together about 40 prosecutors, investigative judges and police inspectors directly involved in assisting victims of human trafficking. The workshop...
Kosovo media receive training on political reporting
Publishing date: 14 April 2003
PRISTINA, 14 April 2003- Today the OSCE Mission in Kosovo is launching a one-week training on story production for television, with a focus on current political affairs. The course, held in conjunction with Vienna-based Österreichischer Rundfunk...
OSCE Secretary General outlines Organization's response to new threats to security
Publishing date: 11 April 2003
NEW YORK, 11 April 2003- OSCE Secretary General Jan Kubis outlined the 55-nation security organization's response to new threats to peace and security at a meeting at the United Nations Security Council on Friday. Addressing a high-level...
Veteran OSCE diplomat killed in road accident in Ukraine
Publishing date: 9 April 2003
KYIV, 9 April 2003- Gizo Grdzelidze, Senior Project Officer in the Office of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, was killed on Wednesday morning in an automobile accident near Kyiv. With him was Alexander Kryvenko, President of Public Radio...
Pace of reform accelerating in Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Mission Head says
Publishing date: 3 April 2003
VIENNA, 3 April 2003- The pace of reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina is accelerating but there is still a long way to go in fully establishing the rule of law and economic regeneration, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina...
Prosecutors Discuss Legal Reform
Publishing date: 31 March 2003
SKOPJE, 31 March 2003- More than 80 public prosecutors gathered over the past weekend in Star Dojran to participate in a legal seminar facilitated by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje...
Head of OSCE Centre in Dushanbe welcomes new Tajik barristers' association
Publishing date: 31 March 2003
DUSHANBE, 31 March 2003- Ambassador Marc Gilbert, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe, welcomed the establishment of a Tajik Barristers' Association that will promote lawyers' activity and help counterbalance other parts of the legal...