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Statement by OSCE Chairman-in-Office on the conflict in Chechnya
Publishing date: 29 December 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Assistance Group to Chechnya (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 29 December 1999-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Foreign Minister of Norway Knut Vollebaek, urges the Russian Federation to do everything in its power to...
Parliamentary Assembly President to lead election observers in Croatia
Publishing date: 20 December 1999
COPENHAGEN, 20 December 1999-- Mrs. Helle Degn MP (Denmark), President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, will arrive in Zagreb on 2 January 2000 to...
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President concerned about Chechnya situation
Publishing date: 10 December 1999
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights
COPENHAGEN, 10 December 1999-- The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Mrs. Helle Degn, strongly appealed to the Russian leadership to...
Appeal issued to free journalist from jail in Serbia
Publishing date: 9 December 1999
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, 9 December 1999- Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, is concerned with the continued imprisonment of Nebojsa Ristic, editor of TV Soko in Sokobanja,...
OSCE/ODIHR will not deploy observation mission to Turkmenistan elections
Publishing date: 9 December 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 9 December 1999-- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR)...
High Commissioner welcomes State Language Law in Latvia
Publishing date: 9 December 1999
Content type: Press statement
What we do: Democratization, National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 9 December 1999- The following statement regarding the the adoption of the State Language Law by the Latvian Parliament was issued by the OSCE High Commissioner on...
OSCE organizes first multilateral meeting on Serb minority education
Publishing date: 7 December 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
VUKOVAR, 7 December 1999-- The first multilateral meeting on Serb minority education issues took place on 7 December 1999 in the premises of the OSCE Co-ordination Centre Vukovar.