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OSCE event participants discuss ways to improve border crossing procedures at 2012 International Transport Forum

Publishing date: 3 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities
LEIPZIG, Germany, 3 May 2012 – Participants at an OSCE side event at the 2012 Annual Summit of the International Transport Forum discussed ways to ensure more effective border crossing procedures...

Head of OSCE Presence in Albania welcomes adoption of administrative courts law

Publishing date: 3 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Rule of law
TIRANA, 3 May 2012- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, welcomed today the approval of the law on administrative courts by the Albanian parliament...

Head of OSCE Mission outlines OSCE’s role in facilitating voting in Kosovo for Serbian parliamentary and presidential elections

Publishing date: 3 May 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Elections
The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Werner Almhofer, outlined the OSCE’s role in facilitating voting in Kosovo for eligible voters in the upcoming elections for the parliament and president of the Republic of Serbia, at a press conference on 3 May 2012 in Prishtinë/Priština...

All participating States must intensify real steps to defend media freedom, says OSCE media freedom representative

Publishing date: 3 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media freedom on the internet, Media laws
TUNIS, 3 May 2012 – Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today urged all governments of the 56-nation OSCE to take real steps to secure freedom of speech...

OSCE trains non-financial entities in preventing money laundering, financing terrorism

Publishing date: 3 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities, Countering terrorism
ASTANA, 3 May 2012 – An OSCE training course on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) for Kazakhstani non-financial businesses and professions has taken place today in Astana...

OSCE Centre supports dialogue on Kazakhstan’s population registration legislation

Publishing date: 3 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization
ASTANA, 3 May 2012 – The challenges of developing a modern national population registration system were discussed today at a roundtable meeting jointly organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana and the Fund for the Development of Parliamentarism in Kazakhstan...

OSCE, EU train 14,000 election officials in advance of Armenian parliamentary elections

Publishing date: 2 May 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Elections
YEREVAN, 2 May 2012 – Training supported by the OSCE and the EU on the procedural and ethical aspects of election administration for precinct election commissioners will conclude tomorrow...