News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Albanian, Montenegrin authorities study Austrian sustainable energy practices on OSCE visit
Publishing date: 18 April 2008
VIENNA, 18 April 2008- Integrated waste management systems and renewable energy technologies used in Austria were the focus of a study trip for 14 representatives of municipal and central authorities from Albania and Montenegro this week...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports capacity-building of internal auditors in municipalities
Publishing date: 18 April 2008
SKOPJE, 18 April 2008- Assisting local internal auditors in applying legal regulations and developing fully functional internal audit units is the aim of a workshop that started in Veles today...
OSCE Centre helps train Kyrgyz police officers on human rights principles
Publishing date: 18 April 2008
BISHKEK, 18 April 2008- Police officers from the Osh, Jalalabad and Batken provinces of Kyrgyzstan completed an OSCE Centre-organized course on human rights today...
OSCE work to fight intolerance important, says Arab League Secretary General
Publishing date: 17 April 2008
VIENNA, 17 April 2008- The OSCE and the League of Arab States face common challenges and strive toward common goals, particularly in the fight against intolerance and discrimination, the League's Secretary General, Amre Moussa, told the OSCE...
OSCE media freedom representative launches guidebook on media self-regulation at Paris forum
Publishing date: 17 April 2008
PARIS, 17 April 2008- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, presented a new OSCE publication on media self-regulation today at the Eurasia Regional Forum for Media Development...
OSCE Chairman expresses concern about recent developments in the Georgian conflict areas
Publishing date: 17 April 2008
HELSINKI, 17 April 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Alexander Stubb expressed concern today over the Russian Federation's decision to establish official ties with the de facto authorities of Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia...
Chairman-in-Office pledges to strengthen OSCE action to promote tolerance
Publishing date: 16 April 2008
HELSINKI, 16 April 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, underscored today that equality and non-discrimination were fundamental principles on which the Organization was founded...