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OSCE Special Envoy to hold talks with leaders in Moldova as part of Transdniestrian settlement

Publishing date: 21 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
HELSINKI, 21 July 2008- The Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Heikki Talvitie, is in Moldova today to hold talks with President Vladimir Voronin. A meeting with Transdniestrian leader Igor Smirnov has been requested...

OSCE Chairmanship holds seminar on elections

Publishing date: 21 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
VIENNA, 21 July 2008- Representatives of OSCE participating States gathered at a seminar in Vienna today to discuss the Organization's role in assisting the development of electoral processes, including through election observation...

OSCE, Armenian officials discuss regional projects in Syunik

Publishing date: 18 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
YEREVAN, 18 July 2008- Armen Gevorkyan, Armenian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Territorial Administration, visited the OSCE presence in Syunik today to discuss projects that are underway with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan...

OSCE Office supports reform of Armenian Public Service Broadcasting

Publishing date: 18 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Economic activities, Media freedom and development
YEREVAN, 18 July 2008- Two experts from the BBC World Service Trust will conclude a one-week visit today aimed at assessing Armenian Public Television's needs for long-term development and training programmes...

Broad consultation on Communist collaboration legislation needed, urges head of OSCE Presence in Albania

Publishing date: 18 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Democratization
TIRANA, 18 July 2008- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Robert Bosch, urged Albanian legislators today to allow sufficient time for consultation on proposed legislation concerning collaborators with the former Communist regime...

OSCE hosts expert meeting on protecting critical energy infrastructure from terrorist attack

Publishing date: 17 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Environmental activities, Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 17 July 2008- Protecting critical energy infrastructure from terrorist attack is the focus of an OSCE meeting that started in Vienna today...

OSCE media freedom watchdog calls Baku trial 'fake', aimed to discredit opposition journalist and protect his real attackers

Publishing date: 17 July 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, 17 July 2008- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, condemned today the trial against Sergey Strekalin, who was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for his self-confessed stabbing of journalist Agil Khalil...