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Website for 2009 Belgrade Model OSCE Conference launched

Publishing date: 16 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 16 October 2008- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and the NGO Zikic have launched a website for a Model OSCE Conference which will take place in Belgrade in February 2009...

OSCE Centre holds checkpoint and x-ray image interpretation course for airport officials in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 16 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
ASHGABAD, 16 October 2008- A three-day OSCE-sponsored training course for airport officials on checkpoint and x-ray interpretation to improve airport security ended in Ashgabad today...

OSCE Office in Yerevan helps young people learn about human rights

Publishing date: 16 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights
YEREVAN, 16 October 2008- A seminar for young people from the OSCE region on human rights issues, supported by the OSCE Office, began at the Children's Rehabilitation Centre in Yerevan today...

OSCE Mission to Skopje supports the development of local television in the digitalization process

Publishing date: 16 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Media freedom and development
SKOPJE, 16 October 2008- How to move from analog to digital broadcasting platforms and the best ways to increase the quality of the audio-visual services on a local level stand in the focus of the two-day conference, which started today in Bitola...

OSCE Office donates bomb-defusing robot to Tajik Interior Ministry

Publishing date: 16 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Policing
DUSHANBE, 16 October 2008- The OSCE Office in Tajikistan donated a robot to the Tajik Interior Ministry to assist police bomb squads in dealing with improvised explosive devices...

OSCE hosts discussion in Uzbekistan on elections and the political culture of electorate

Publishing date: 16 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Elections, Rule of law
TASHKENT, 16 October 2008- Increasing the political culture of the electorate and perspectives for new democracies were among the topics discussed at a meeting in Tashkent today...

OSCE media freedom representative urges Uzbek government to dismiss journalist's 10-year prison sentence

Publishing date: 15 October 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 15 October 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today asked the Uzbek government to review on appeal the 10-year prison sentence handed to well-known journalist Salidzhon Abdurakhmanov...