News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
UN and OSCE to move onto second phase of joint initiative on environment and security
Publishing date: 21 May 2003
PRAGUE, 21 May 2003- A joint United Nations-OSCE initiative to promote co-operation in environmental matters and security questions will receive a major boost today when the OSCE Economic Forum, taking place in Prague, will be linked via video...
Chairman-in-Office urges OSCE States to take concrete steps in fight against trafficking
Publishing date: 20 May 2003
PRAGUE, 20 May 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has called on OSCE States at the 11th OSCE Economic Forum to identify concrete steps to better fight trafficking...
OSCE holds workshops in Central Asian Region on civil-military relations
Publishing date: 13 May 2003
VIENNA, 13 May- A team of OSCE experts are in Central Asia this week to promote OSCE standards on civil-military relations, including democratic oversight of the armed forces. The experts are meeting government officials and senior military...
OSCE Office launches website on competition policy in Armenia
Publishing date: 25 April 2003
YEREVAN, 25 April 2003- The official website of the State Commission on Protection of Economic Competition of Armenia has been launched with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan. The website provides a full range of information on...
OSCE meeting focuses on acute danger from nuclear waste in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 17 April 2003
BISHKEK, 17 April 2003- A three-day international scientific meeting in Kyrgyzstan aims at assessing technical problems posed by radioactive waste dumps at Mailuu-Suu in the country's south, which threaten the whole region with radioactive...
OSCE Secretary General outlines Organization's response to new threats to security
Publishing date: 11 April 2003
NEW YORK, 11 April 2003- OSCE Secretary General Jan Kubis outlined the 55-nation security organization's response to new threats to peace and security at a meeting at the United Nations Security Council on Friday. Addressing a high-level...
Veteran OSCE diplomat killed in road accident in Ukraine
Publishing date: 9 April 2003
KYIV, 9 April 2003- Gizo Grdzelidze, Senior Project Officer in the Office of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, was killed on Wednesday morning in an automobile accident near Kyiv. With him was Alexander Kryvenko, President of Public Radio...