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OSCE Ministerial Troika meets in Copenhagen
Publishing date: 23 January 1996
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Troika
COPENHAGEN, 23 January 1996-- The Ministers of the Troika of the OSCE met today in Copenhagen to follow-up on the OSCE Summit in Lisbon, discuss elections in Chechnya, and review the situation in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in Belarus...
Helsinki Final Act signed twenty years ago today
Publishing date: 1 August 1995
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 1 August 1995-- Today marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act. On 1 August 1975, 35 Heads of State or Government from Europe, the United States, and...
OSCE Assistance Group for Chechnya starts work in Grozny
Publishing date: 26 April 1995
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Assistance Group to Chechnya (closed)
What we do: Human rights
VIENNA, 26 April 1995-- The OSCE Assistance Group for the Chechen Republic begins work in Grozny, the Chechen capital, today. The team of six diplomats led by Ambassador Sandor...
Permanent Council agrees on mandate for Chechnya Assistance Group
Publishing date: 11 April 1995
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Assistance Group to Chechnya (closed)
What we do: Human rights
VIENNA, 11 April 1995-- The OSCE Permanent Council issued the following decision today which outlines a mandate for an OSCE Assistance Group for the Chechen Republic:...
OSCE expert mission returns from Chechnya
Publishing date: 3 March 1995
VIENNA, 3 March 1995-- The second OSCE mission to the region of the Chechen crisis returned to Vienna on 2 March. The mission, lead by Swiss diplomat Lorenzo Amberg, worked with a mandate...
Two OSCE Permanent Council decisions on Russian-Latvian agreements
Publishing date: 23 February 1995
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
VIENNA, 23 February 1995-- The OSCE Permanent Council adopted two important decisions at today's session regarding Russian-Latvian agreements.
ODIHR to train Ombudsmen for Bosnia-Herzegovina
Publishing date: 14 February 1995
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
WARSAW, 14 February 1995- The newly appointed Ombudsmen of Bosnia-Herzegovina have arrived in Warsaw to attend an intensive training seminar organized by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.