News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre supports election lessons for first-time voters in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 15 November 2005
ALMATY, 15 November 2005- Over 7,000 secondary school students from 10 regions of Kazakhstan who can cast their vote for the first time in the forthcoming presidential election on 4 December are today beginning a special course on elections, supported...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator awards top Ukrainian journalism students
Publishing date: 14 November 2005
KYIV, 14 November 2005- An awards ceremony today marked the end of a pilot project by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine providing internships for outstanding journalism students from different regions of Ukraine...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes new Macedonian broadcast law
Publishing date: 11 November 2005
VIENNA, 11 November 2005- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, lauded the new Law on Broadcast Activity, passed Wednesday at a Parliamentary session in Skopje, to regulate the private broadcasting industry, as well as...
OSCE Mission and Kosovo Ministry launch campaign to tackle illegal occupation
Publishing date: 11 November 2005
PRISTINA, 11 November 2005- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo, together with Kosovo's Environment and Spatial Planning Ministry, today launched a multi-media public awareness campaign to tackle the issue of illegal occupation of property...
OSCE Mission acknowledges adoption of Montenegrin Law on Free Access to Information and encourages its implementation
Publishing date: 11 November 2005
PODGORICA, 11 November 2005- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro acknowledged the adoption of the Law on Free Access to Information by the Montenegrin Parliament on 8 of November...
OSCE Centre applauds Kazakhstan's legal moves to combat money laundering and terrorism financing
Publishing date: 10 November 2005
ALMATY, 10 November 2005-Kazakhstan's recent legislative initiatives to combat money-laundering and the financing of terrorism were praised today during a roundtable on this issue, organized by the Centre in Almaty...
OSCE Centre supports entrepreneurship in southern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 10 November 2005
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 10 November- Over 20 participants from local business associations, non-governmental organizations (NGO) and government structures will participate in an intensive ten-day training seminar on entrepreneurship, beginning today in...