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OSCE seminar highlights good practices in border demarcation

Publishing date: 31 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution
VILNIUS, 31 May 2011 – Border officials, diplomats, scientists, cartographers, engineers and other experts today began discussing good practices in delimitation and demarcation of borders at an OSCE Chairmanship seminar in Vilnius...

OSCE media freedom representative meets Bulgarian Foreign Minister, discusses media freedom issues and co-operation

Publishing date: 30 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media laws, Safety of journalists
SOFIA, 30 May 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, discussed the media situation in Bulgaria during a meeting today with Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nickolay Mladenov...

OSCE Chairmanship workshop discusses confidence-building role of economic and environmental activities

Publishing date: 30 May 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities, Good governance
Participants in an OSCE Chairmanship-organized workshop held in Vienna on 30 May discussed the potential of economic and environmental activities to effectively build confidence and trust...

OSCE human rights chief reappointed

Publishing date: 30 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
VILNIUS, 30 May 2011 – Foreign ministers from the 56 OSCE participating States today unanimously agreed to reappoint the chief of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Ambassador Janez Lenarčič of Slovenia, for a term of three years...

OSCE Centre supports high-level meeting on Kyrgyzstan’s public administration reform

Publishing date: 30 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization
BISHKEK, 30 May 2011 – Parliament Speaker Akhmatbek Keldibekov, parliamentarians, high-level government officials, political party leaders, representatives of civil society and international organizations met today in Bishkek to discuss priorities for public administration reform during a meeting supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek...

OSCE Chairperson commends amnesty in Armenia

Publishing date: 27 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
VILNIUS, 27 May 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, commended the decision by the authorities of Armenia to release through an amnesty the remaining imprisoned participants of March 2008 demonstrations following the Presidential Election...

OSCE Mission to Moldova welcomes registration of Muslim community, calls for religious tolerance

Publishing date: 27 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues, Tolerance and non-discrimination
CHISINAU, 27 May 2011- Today the OSCE Mission to Moldova welcomed recent registration of the first Muslim organization in Moldova but also expressed concerns about recent manifestations of intolerance and urged Moldova to maintain its commitment to religious tolerance...