News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE missions support regional municipal cross-border co-operation
Publishing date: 25 May 2006
PRIZREN, 25 May 2006- Local and regional officials from Kosovo, Albania, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia met yesterday in Prizren, with the support of the OSCE, to discuss regional co-operation and local co-ordination on issues of mutual...
OSCE Mission condemns property rights-related violence
Publishing date: 3 May 2006
PRISTINA, 3 May 2006- The Acting Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Jens Modvig, today strongly condemned recent violent incidents linked to property disputes...
OSCE media watchdog welcomes improved climate and work in Kosovo- 'press freedom in good shape'
Publishing date: 27 April 2006
PRISTINA, 27 April 2006- Concluding a two-day visit to Kosovo, Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said he had been impressed by the progress he witnessed in the province and the work done by media professionals...
Kosovo criminal justice system improved but more changes needed, OSCE Mission report says
Publishing date: 31 March 2006
PRISTINA, 31 March 2006- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo today released a report on the implementation of recommendations the Mission has offered to Kosovo's legal and judicial institutions since 1999 to remedy shortcomings and ensure compliance with...
OSCE Mission increases human rights support to Kosovo's provisional ministries
Publishing date: 20 March 2006
PRISTINA, 20 March 2006- Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Çeku and Ambassador Werner Wnendt, Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, today signed an agreement increasing the OSCE support in the field of human rights to the ministries of...
OSCE Mission presents manual on domestic violence for Kosovo's social workers
Publishing date: 9 March 2006
PRISTINA, 9 March 2006- A manual that will help social workers better assist victims of domestic violence was today presented by Amb. Werner Wnendt, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, to Ibrahim Selmanaj, PISG Minister of Labor and Social Welfare...
OSCE Chairman urges Kosovo leaders to begin decentralization process, continue standards implementation
Publishing date: 16 February 2006
PRISTINA/MITROVICA, 16 February 2006- During a one-day visit to Kosovo today, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, told political leaders in Pristina the implementation of standards and the start of a decentralization...