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OSCE Mission co-sponsors anti-corruption campaign in Kosovo
Publishing date: 11 December 2006
PRISTINA, 11 December 2006- A public information campaign calling on people to help increase transparency and fight corruption was launched today in Kosovo by the OSCE Mission, the UN Development Programme and the Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency...
OSCE Centre helps Turkmenistan train law-enforcement officials in border management
Publishing date: 11 December 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Border management, Education
ASHGABAD, 11 December 2006- Practical border management was the focus of a course organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad and Turkmenistan's Foreign Ministry...
OSCE Chairman concerned over constitutional referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh
Publishing date: 11 December 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BRUSSELS, 11 December 2006- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, said the OSCE will not recognize the referendum on a draft constitution held on Sunday. "Such a referendum is counter-productive...
OSCE, UNODC hold workshop in Montenegro on combating money-laundering and terrorist financing
Publishing date: 8 December 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities, Good governance
KOLASIN, Montenegro, 8 December 2006- Developing national capacity-building in the fight against money-laundering and terrorist financing is the focus of a two-day workshop that ends in Kolasin today. Organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and...
OSCE Mission to Skopje helps strengthen capacity of municipal internal auditors
Publishing date: 8 December 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 8 December 2006- More than 120 mayors, municipal internal auditors, and heads of municipal financial and legal departments took part in a series of workshops that ended in Dojran today...
OSCE Chairman De Gucht marks Human Rights Day by urging participating States to protect human rights defenders
Publishing date: 8 December 2006
BRUSSELS, 8 December 2006- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister, Karel De Gucht, has called today for increased awareness of the difficulties many human rights defenders face. He made his remarks before the International Human Rights Day...
OSCE Mission organizes meeting to encourage dialogue between police and Roma communities in Vojvodina
Publishing date: 8 December 2006
BELGRADE, 8 December 2006- Encouraging a dialogue between police and Roma communities in Vojvodina was the aim of a meeting held in Novi Sad today. The event, the first of its kind in Serbia, was organized by the OSCE Mission...