News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR election observers to stay in Albania for 22 July vote
Publishing date: 13 July 2001
WARSAW, 13 July 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has decided that OSCE/ODIHR election observers will remain in Albania to monitor the election process and the preparations...
Child protection conference in Tajikistan ends with draft Action Plan
Publishing date: 13 July 2001
DUSHANBE, 13 July 2001 (OSCE)- A three-day conference on child protection ended yesterday in Tajikistan. The conference, which focused on agreements on recommendations and the basic content of a draft National Plan of Action for Children...
Kosovo Election Commission adopts rule on role of media in upcoming elections
Publishing date: 13 July 2001
PRISTINA, 13 July 2001 (OSCE)-- Kosovo\'s Central Election Commission, chaired by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Daan Everts, yesterday passed a rule on the role of the media in the electoral campaign during the run-up to the November polls...
Chairman-in-Office welcomes conduct of elections in Albania
Publishing date: 13 July 2001
BUCHAREST, 13 July 2001-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, welcomes the adequate and transparent conduct of the first and second round of the parliamentary elections in Albania, held on 24 June and 8 July...
Croatia's decision to co-operate with ICTY welcomed by OSCE Chairman-in-Office
Publishing date: 13 July 2001
BUCHAREST, 13 July 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, welcomes the recent decision of the Croatian Government to co-operate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)...
Freimut Duve: Russia allows a Tajik journalist to go back to his family
Publishing date: 12 July 2001
VIENNA, 12 July 2001 (OSCE)-- On 12 July, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on the recent case of Tajik journalist Dododjon Atovulloyev, detained at a Moscow airport...
OSCE calls for co-ordinated fight against trafficking in human beings
Publishing date: 12 July 2001
VIENNA, 12 July 2001 (OSCE)- In a bid to improve the fight against trafficking in human beings, the OSCE Permanent Council today urged its international partner organizations to adopt similar anti-trafficking rules to those contained in OSCE...