News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Skopje meeting agrees on priorities for Environment and Security Initiative in south-eastern Europe
Publishing date: 24 September 2004
SKOPJE, 24 September 2004- Specialists from international organizations and governments in south-eastern Europe ended a two-day meeting on possible risks to security from environmental issues by agreeing to focus on specific problems which transcend...
Banja Luka and Donji Vakuf last municipalities in Bosnia to complete property repossession
Publishing date: 27 July 2004
SARAJEVO, 27 July 2004- The Property Law Implementation agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina note that only Banja Luka and Donji Vakuf are left to enforce decisions for repossession of property...
OSCE announces that confidence- and security-building agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina will end in September 2004
Publishing date: 24 June 2004
VIENNA, 23 June 2004- The Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO for Articles II and IV, General Claudio Zappulla, announced today that the Agreement on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in Bosnia and Herzegovina will end in September...
Failure to pass Higher Education Law betrays students, warn international organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 11 May 2004
SARAJEVO, 11 May 2004- The Office of the High Representative, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the World Bank and the Council of Europe expressed their regret today about the failure to pass the Higher Education Law...
OSCE BiH Mission praises five cantons for adopting harmonized laws on primary and secondary education
Publishing date: 27 April 2004
SARAJEVO, 27 April 2004- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina commends the representatives of the Cantonal Assemblies of Una-Sana, Tuzla, Bosansko-Podrinjski, Zenica-Doboj and Sarajevo for unanimously passing Laws on Primary and Secondary...
High Representative and Head of OSCE Mission to BiH issue statement on guarantees for Mostar university
Publishing date: 26 April 2004
SARAJEVO, 24 April 2004- The High Representative and the Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH issued the following statement on 24 April: "We have read the concerns of the Students Union of the Mostarsko Sveuciliste, and would like to give them this...
Nearly $100 million will be lost if BiH does not accelerate reforms, international organizations warn
Publishing date: 20 April 2004
SARAJEVO, 20 April 2004- The members of the Board of Principals and the Council of Europe said that nearly $100 million in international assistance would be lost unless Bosnia and Herzegovina accelerated key economic and social reforms in coming...