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OSCE Centre in Kazakhstan supports trade and transport facilitation
Publishing date: 14 September 2012
A two-day high-level meeting on international trade, trade facilitation and aid for trade was held on 13 and 14 September 2012 in Almaty with the OSCE’s participation...
OSCE Secretary General pays official visit to Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretary General
ASTANA, 13 September 2012 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier paid his first official visit to Kazakhstan today, meeting with Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev and top officials...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan helps destroy more than 600 small arms and light weapons
Publishing date: 13 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
DUSHANBE, 13 September 2012 – The OSCE Office observes and supports an operation to destroy small arms and light weapons which started in Dushanbe today...
OSCE Mission to Serbia organizes regional conference on reform of criminal procedure systems
Publishing date: 13 September 2012
BELGRADE, 13 September 2012 – Legal experts, judges, prosecutors and lawyers from Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina discussed regional experiences with reformed criminal procedure codes at an OSCE-organized conference in Belgrade today...
Talks on Transdniestrian settlement result in agreement to promote human rights dialogue, foster links with civil society and media
Publishing date: 13 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 13 September 2012 – The latest round of official 5+2 talks towards a Transdniestrian settlement concluded in Vienna today...
OSCE Secretary General addresses CICA conference
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretary General
ASTANA, 12 September 2012 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier participated in a meeting of foreign ministers of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures (CICA) today in Astana...
Lawsuit against Hungarian journalist can have chilling effect on Internet freedom, warns OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 12 September 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today warned that the lawsuit initiated by the official Hungarian News Agency against journalist György Balavany can constrain media pluralism on the Internet...