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OSCE holds regional workshop on combating illicit drugs trafficking in Central Asia

Publishing date: 20 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
TASHKENT, 20 November 2008- Improving co-operation among the national stakeholders in Central Asia to prevent and investigate drug trafficking, and exchanging intelligence information is the purpose of a regional workshop that opened in Tashkent today...

OSCE Special Envoy briefs participating States on Geneva talks

Publishing date: 20 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
VIENNA, 20 November 2008- Heikki Talvitie, the Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, said today that the Geneva talks, co-chaired by the OSCE, UN and EU, had been constructive and that the next round of talks would discuss concrete proposals.

OSCE Project Co-ordinator supports improvement of administrative law curriculum in Ukraine

Publishing date: 20 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
KAMYANETS-PODILSKY, Ukraine, 20 November 2008- Reform of Ukraine's administrative law and changes to the respective law course curriculum at universities is the focus of a two-day conference that opened in western Ukraine today...

Recent assaults on journalists in Armenia threaten free press, says OSCE representative

Publishing date: 19 November 2008
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, 19 November 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, expressed his concern today over a violent attack this week against an independent journalist in Armenia...

OSCE/ODIHR to send expert team to Turkmenistan ahead of parliamentary elections

Publishing date: 19 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Elections
WARSAW, 19 November 2008- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) announced today it will send an Election Support Team to Turkmenistan ahead of the 14 December parliamentary elections...

OSCE national minorities Commissioner, Latvian Naturalization Board to hold conference on citizenship

Publishing date: 19 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 19 November 2008- A conference organized by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and the Naturalization Board of the Republic of Latvia on the institution of citizenship and its development and perspectives in the Baltic...

Head of OSCE Presence in Albania calls on all political actors to now focus on implementation of Electoral Code

Publishing date: 19 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Elections
TIRANA, 19 November 2008- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania said today that now that the Electoral Code has been approved with an overwhelming majority, the time has come to concentrate on the practical implementation of the Code...