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OSCE Chairperson welcomes agreement on new government in BiH

Publishing date: 29 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
VILNIUS, 29 December 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed today the agreement by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s politicians to form a new state government...

OSCE Secretary General discusses tackling organized crime and drugs trafficking with UNODC

Publishing date: 28 December 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism
Meeting with the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, on 22 December 2011 in Vienna, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier discussed the prospects for closer co-operation to tackle organized crime and drugs trafficking...

OSCE media freedom representative expresses concern over newly-adopted broadcasting law in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 28 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Digital switchover, Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 28 December 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern about a controversial law on television and radio broadcasting adopted today by Kazakhstan’s upper chamber of Parliament...

OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine donates IT equipment to help Interior Ministry to combat cybercrime, human trafficking

Publishing date: 27 December 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) handed over computers, monitors and docking stations to the country’s Interior Ministry on 27 December 2011...

OSCE media representative welcomes release of Azerbaijani social media activist

Publishing date: 27 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media freedom on the internet, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 27 December 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed today the pardoning of Facebook activist Jabbar Savalan in Azerbaijan...

OSCE strengthens professional capacities of Yerevan municipal staff

Publishing date: 27 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
YEREVAN, 27 December 2011 – Some 60 staff members of the Yerevan municipality and the city’s administrative districts received certificates today for completing a one-week intensive training course on planning and monitoring organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan...

OSCE Office in Baku trains judges and prosecutors to combat money laundering and terrorist financing

Publishing date: 27 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Economic activities, Countering terrorism
GANJA, Azerbaijan, 27 December 2011 – The OSCE Office in Baku launched a training session today in Ganja, the second largest city of Azerbaijan, on countering money laundering and financing of terrorism...