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OSCE Chairmanship workshop discusses confidence-building role of economic and environmental activities

Publishing date: 30 May 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities, Good governance
Participants in an OSCE Chairmanship-organized workshop held in Vienna on 30 May discussed the potential of economic and environmental activities to effectively build confidence and trust...

OSCE human rights chief reappointed

Publishing date: 30 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
VILNIUS, 30 May 2011 – Foreign ministers from the 56 OSCE participating States today unanimously agreed to reappoint the chief of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Ambassador Janez Lenarčič of Slovenia, for a term of three years...

OSCE Centre supports high-level meeting on Kyrgyzstan’s public administration reform

Publishing date: 30 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization
BISHKEK, 30 May 2011 – Parliament Speaker Akhmatbek Keldibekov, parliamentarians, high-level government officials, political party leaders, representatives of civil society and international organizations met today in Bishkek to discuss priorities for public administration reform during a meeting supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek...

OSCE Chairperson commends amnesty in Armenia

Publishing date: 27 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
VILNIUS, 27 May 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, commended the decision by the authorities of Armenia to release through an amnesty the remaining imprisoned participants of March 2008 demonstrations following the Presidential Election...

OSCE Mission to Moldova welcomes registration of Muslim community, calls for religious tolerance

Publishing date: 27 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues, Tolerance and non-discrimination
CHISINAU, 27 May 2011- Today the OSCE Mission to Moldova welcomed recent registration of the first Muslim organization in Moldova but also expressed concerns about recent manifestations of intolerance and urged Moldova to maintain its commitment to religious tolerance...

Press release issued by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

Publishing date: 27 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
VIENNA, 27 May 2011- The following is a press release issued by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on 27 May. The views expressed in this press release do not necessarily reflect those of the OSCE Chairmanship, nor of all OSCE participating States:

OSCE media representative concerned by violence against journalists in Georgia

Publishing date: 27 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 27 May 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today called upon the Georgian authorities to ensure that journalists can safely perform their professional duties at all times...