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OSCE Mission to Serbia encourages more active youth participation

Publishing date: 29 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
NOVI PAZAR, Serbia, 29 August 2008- Encouraging more active youth participation in community life is the aim of the OSCE-supported "Key" rock music festival taking place in Novi Pazar on Saturday and Sunday...

OSCE Permanent Council holds special meeting, Georgian Foreign Minister addresses delegations

Publishing date: 28 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
VIENNA, 28 August 2008- The OSCE Permanent Council convened for an extraordinary session today in Vienna to discuss the Georgian-Russian conflict, with Georgian Foreign Minister Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili addressing the participating States...

OSCE Office supports discussion on curbing use of student labour for cotton harvest

Publishing date: 28 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Education
KHUJAND, Tajikistan, 28 August 2008- Thousands of students in Tajikistan temporarily abandon their studies to work the cotton harvest, a concern that was the focus of a roundtable discussion organized by the OSCE Office today in Khujand...

OSCE rights body, Council of Europe express disappointment at signing of amendments to Kyrgyzstan's assembly law

Publishing date: 27 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
WARSAW/STRASBOURG, 27 August 2008- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe today expressed their disappointment at the signing into law of amendments to Kyrgyzstan's...

OSCE Office organizes summer camp for Armenian children

Publishing date: 27 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Economic activities, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Education, Gender equality, Tolerance and non-discrimination
KAPAN, Armenia, 27 August 2008- Some 80 disabled and socially disadvantaged children from Armenia's Syunik province are taking part in a summer camp on "Learning to Live Together" in Kapan, the provincial capital...

500th flight marks milestone in Open Skies treaty

Publishing date: 26 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Open Skies Consultative Commission
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 26 August 2008- A Benelux flight over Bosnia and Herzegovina on 20 August was the 500th flight conducted under the Open Skies treaty, which allows State Parties to carry out unarmed observation flights over each other's territories...

OSCE Chairman condemns Russia's recognition of South Ossetia, Abkhazia independence

Publishing date: 26 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
HELSINKI, 26 August 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, today condemned the decision by Russia to recognize the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia...