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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Voters' list for Kosovo Assembly election to top one million
Publishing date: 24 September 2001
PRISTINA, 24 September 2001 (OSCE)-- Almost 350,000 people in Kosovo and beyond had visited combined Voter Services and Registration Centres by Saturday\'s deadline...
OSCE human rights office calls for independent investigation of unsolved disappearances and murders in Belarus and Ukraine
Publishing date: 24 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
WARSAW, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE's human rights institution, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today called for an independent investigation of the murder of the Ukrainian journalist Georgyi Gongadze...
OSCE Permanent Council expresses concern about recent anti-Muslim incidents
Publishing date: 21 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)- Coming together for a special session to discuss the fight against terrorism, the OSCE Permanent Council today expressed its concern about reports of anti-Muslim incidents and violence in several OSCE countries...
OSCE encourages women to participate in multi-ethnic police training in Yugoslavia
Publishing date: 21 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues, Policing
BELGRADE, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia welcomes the beginning of a campaign to include women in the training program for multi-ethnic police, which the OSCE and the Serb Ministry of Interior...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office calls for plan of action to fight terrorism
Publishing date: 21 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Summits / Ministerial Councils, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, called today on all 55 OSCE participating States to work together to develop an OSCE-wide plan of action for the fight against terrorism...
OSCE helps train public affairs officers in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 20 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
BANJA LUKA, 20 September 2001 (OSCE)- Increased transparency of governmental work and improvement of the communication between government, media and citizens is the main subject of a four-day workshop that began on 17 September in Banja Luka
President of the Kyrgyz Republic calls for urgent action against terrorism
Publishing date: 20 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
VIENNA, 20 September 2001 (OSCE)- In an address to the Permanent Council of the OSCE yesterday, the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Mr. Askar Akaev, expressed his profound sense of shock at the tragic events that struck the United States last week