Skip navigation

0Meta Navigation

× Close search

Navigation

Home Newsroom Press releases
Newsroom

News and press releases

Subscribe to News Updates

News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.

OSCE approves budget for Kosovo municipal elections in 2002

Publishing date: 19 April 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Elections
VIENNA, 19 April 2002- The OSCE Permanent Council today adopted a decision on the supplementary budget for the 2002 municipal elections in Kosovo. Ambassador João de Lima Pimentel, Chairman of the Permanent Council, described the decision as a...

Judicial reform and combating organized crime top agenda of Friends of Albania meeting in Vienna

Publishing date: 17 April 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights, Elections, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 17 April 2002- Judicial reform and combating organized crime as well as economic development in Albania were the main focus of today's meeting of the Friends of Albania group

Observation of election process vital for transparency in Kosovo

Publishing date: 11 April 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Elections
PRISTINA, 11 April 2002- Effective and impartial observation helps to instil confidence in an electoral process, while ensuring that it is conducted in an open and transparent manner. Electoral Rule 3/2002 governing observation of the electoral...

High Commissioner on National Minorities on Moldova: "Resolving Ethnic Issues not a Zero Sum Game"

Publishing date: 10 April 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
CHISINAU, 10 April 2002- During his three day visit to the Republic of Moldova, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Rolf Ekeus, stressed to interlocutors from across the political and ethnic spectrum that "resolving ethnic issues...

Kosovo's Municipal Election Commissions take on greater responsibilities

Publishing date: 4 April 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 4 April 2002- Municipal Election Commissions (MEC) in Kosovo will move a step further towards becoming permanent election management bodies in each of the province's 30 municipalities. Electoral Rule No. 2/2002, issued by...

OSCE concerned about attack on Kazakh senator

Publishing date: 2 April 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Media freedom and development
ALMATY, 2 April 2002- The OSCE Centre in Almaty is deeply concerned about the fact that, in the early morning of 2 April, special police forces physically attacked a Member of Parliament. Senator Zauresh Battalova said that she was subjected...

New code of conduct on elections approved in Kosovo

Publishing date: 2 April 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 2 April 2002- The Central Election Commission (CEC) has approved the ground rules that will govern the conduct and campaign activities of those contesting the second municipal elections in Kosovo later this year...