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OSCE launches Central Asian Youth Network
Publishing date: 30 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization
TASHKENT, 30 April 2004- More than 50 senior students and 15 of their supervisors from Central Asia will gather on 5 May in Uzbekistan to attend a research seminar marking the successful start of the newly-established Central Asian Youth Network...
OSCE Mission welcomes staging of World Press Freedom Day in Belgrade
Publishing date: 30 April 2004
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 29 April 2004- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari, welcomed the staging of the regional World Press Freedom Day 2004 by UNESCO in Belgrade on 2 and 3 May...
World Press Freedom Day will be observed in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 30 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
TASHKENT, 30 April 2004- World Press Freedom Day will be marked in Tashkent on 3 May by a national media conference which will discuss the situation of the media in Uzbekistan. Organized by the OSCE Centre in Tashkent, the UN Office, the Konrad...
OSCE Mission assists in handover of weapons and munitions in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict
Publishing date: 30 April 2004
TBILISI, 30 April 2004- Engineers of the Joint Peacekeeping Force carried out on Thursday the destruction of weapons and munitions collected under the OSCE Mission to Georgia Rapid Reaction programme in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict.
International representatives in Skopje praise conduct of election, express concern over irregularities
Publishing date: 30 April 2004
SKOPJE, 30 April 2004- Representatives of international organizations based in Skopje have commended the peaceful way the second round of presidential election was held on Wednesday. A joint statement the Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission...
OSCE 'Berlin Declaration' sets out concrete measures to fight anti-Semitism
Publishing date: 29 April 2004
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights
BERLIN, 29 April 2004- The OSCE's second Conference on anti-Semitism ended today with a ringing condemnation of all acts motivated by anti-Semitism or other forms of religious or racial hatred, and States agreed to take specific, practical counter...
Presidential election generally consistent with international standards but marred by irregularities, OSCE reports from Skopje
Publishing date: 29 April 2004
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
SKOPJE, 29 April 2004- The second round of the presidential election in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on 28 April was generally consistent with OSCE election related commitments. However, election day was marred by serious but localized...