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Civil society oversight of municipalities necessary to improve public service, OSCE conference participants conclude

Publishing date: 17 July 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Good governance
More than 25 civil society representatives from south-eastern Europe met on 15 and 16 July 2013 at an OSCE conference in Prishtinë/ Priština to exchange best practices on municipal oversight and participation in local decision-making...

Latest round of Transdniestrian settlement talks concludes in Vienna

Publishing date: 17 July 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 17 July 2013 – The latest round of 5+2 talks in the Transdniestrian settlement process, chaired by the OSCE Chairperson’s Special Representative for conflicts Ambassador Andrii Deshchytsia, concluded in Vienna today...

OSCE Chairperson welcomes appointment of Astrid Thors as OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

Publishing date: 17 July 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
KYIV, 17 July 2013- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, welcomed the appointment of Finnish politician Astrid Thors as OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. Thors has been a Member of the Parliament of Finland since 2004. She has also served as a Minister of Migration and European Affairs of Finland and was a Member of the European Parliament. Her appointment as OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities was a consensus decision of all 57 OSCE participating States...

Online training system for election commissioners in Ukraine developed with OSCE support

Publishing date: 17 July 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Elections
KYIV, 17 July 2013- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, in co-operation with the Central Election Commission (CEC), presented a recently developed online training system for election commissioners at an event in Kyiv today...

Measures to promote transparency, public participation in lawmaking in focus at ODIHR-supported workshop in Tbilisi

Publishing date: 16 July 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization
Measures to increase transparency and public participation in the lawmaking process were the focus of a workshop organised by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Parliament of Georgia in Tbilisi on 16 July 2013...

OSCE promotes parliamentarism among young people in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 16 July 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Education, Rule of law
On 15 July 2013 the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan hosted the concluding session of the Youth Model Parliament, an OSCE–supported project...

Young people from both banks of Dniester/Nistru river discuss environmental protection and building trust, with OSCE support

Publishing date: 16 July 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Education, Youth
An OSCE-supported summer school held from 4 to 14 July 2013 brought together 80 young people from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River in a beach town of Molovata Noua...