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Sustainable business development is best conflict prevention, say OSCE seminar participants

Publishing date: 17 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
VIENNA, 17 November 2003- The importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in transition economies and their role in economic development and employment is the topic of an international OSCE seminar that takes place in Armenia today...

OSCE, UN step up tackling environmental threats to security

Publishing date: 14 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
VIENNA, 14 November 2003- The OSCE and two UN agencies today agreed on new efforts to fight environmental threats to security. Under an agreement signed in Vienna this morning, the three international organizations will jointly adress problems...

Uzbek and Afghan officials to attend OSCE border control training

Publishing date: 17 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Countering terrorism, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
TASHKENT, 17 October 2003- Border guards, police officers and customs officials from Uzbekistan and Afghanistan will attend a two-week OSCE training course, which will start in the Uzbek border town of Termez next week. Officials from the...

OSCE Secretariat calls for proposals for video project

Publishing date: 7 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Countering terrorism, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti
VIENNA, 7 October 2003- The OSCE Secretariat in Vienna is requesting professional TV production companies to submit proposals for a video film, promoting the work of the Organization. In 2004, the OSCE plans to finalize a 30-minute promotional...

Joint OSCE workshop in Tashkent tackles money-laundering and the financing of terrorism

Publishing date: 6 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Countering terrorism
TASHKENT, 6 October 2003- Money laundering is a direct threat to both national and international security, therefore international co-operation is essential in combating it, experts heard during a two-day joint OSCE workshop in Tashkent, Uzbekistan...

Election workshop to take place in Minsk

Publishing date: 19 September 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Elections
MINSK, 19 September 2003- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Office in Minsk, together with the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Belarus, will host an international workshop...

OSCE media watchdog, Council of Europe voice concern on media in Azerbaijan

Publishing date: 10 September 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Safety of journalists
VIENNA/STRASBOURG, 10 September 2003- Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today made the following joint statement regarding the media situation in...