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Arms reduction period ends for former warring Yugoslav republics

Publishing date: 21 November 1997
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Personal Representatives of the Chairperson-in-Office, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 21 November 1997-- The Parties to the Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control have significantly reduced the level of their arms holdings...

Mandates created for media representative and economic and environmental co-ordinator-2

Publishing date: 11 November 1997
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed), OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Democratization
VIENNA, 6 November 1997-- The Permanent Council of the OSCE yesterday decided on the mandate for the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media...

Human rights record of OSCE States under review in Warsaw

Publishing date: 11 November 1997
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW, 11 November 1997-- The Foreign Minister of Poland, Bronislaw Geremek will open the biannual OSCE Implementation Meeting tomorrow in Warsaw. The three-week Meeting of...

Mandates created for media representative and economic and environmental co-ordinator

Publishing date: 6 November 1997
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
What we do: Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 6 November 1997-- The Permanent Council of the OSCE yesterday decided on the mandate for the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, as called for by the OSCE Lisbon Summit Meeting in December 1996.

OSCE Ministerial Troika meets in Warsaw

Publishing date: 31 October 1997
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Troika
WARSAW, 31 October 1997-- The Ministers of the Troika of the OSCE, the Foreign Ministers of Poland, Switzerland and Denmark met today in Warsaw. The Ministers discussed prospects for the Copenhagen...

OSCE releases final technical report on elections in Serbia

Publishing date: 27 October 1997
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Elections
VIENNA, 27 October 1997- The final technical report on the 21 September Parliamentary Election and the 21 September and 5 October Presidential Election in the Republic of Serbia is available at the OSCE Secretariat, by request.

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities issues statement on Slovakia

Publishing date: 20 October 1997
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 20 October 1997- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Max van der Stoel, issued the following statement on Slovakia today: I have...