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OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities: State must take responsibility for facilitating integration

Publishing date: 28 May 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek has stressed the need for governments to promote integration of society during the last official visit of his mandate to Skopje from 22 to 24 May 2013...

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities marks 20 years of conflict prevention

Publishing date: 14 March 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
The institution of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities marked its 20th anniversary in The Hague on 7 and 8 March 2013...

OSCE Chairperson stresses need to respect and uphold rights of national minorities

Publishing date: 7 March 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 7 March 2013 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, speaking today at an event marking the 20th anniversary of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) said lasting peace and security can only be achieved by respecting and upholding human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to national minorities...

Progress made in Serbia-Romania dialogue on minority issues in consultations facilitated by OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

Publishing date: 1 March 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
On 28 February and 1 March 2013, delegations from the Serbian and Romanian Governments met for the second time in the Netherlands for informal consultations under the auspices of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), Ambassador Knut Vollebaek...

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities to mark 20 years of preventing ethnic conflict

Publishing date: 25 February 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 25 February 2013 – An event to mark the 20th anniversary of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities will take place in The Hague on 7 March...

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities notes progress, remaining challenges in Serbia

Publishing date: 6 February 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek visited Serbia from 28 to 31 January 2013 to meet key Serbian officials, including President Tomislav Nikolić and Prime Minister Ivica Dačić, and to follow up on several issues of his concern in eastern and southern Serbia...

Children’s right to education must not be politicized, says OSCE report on Moldovan-administered Latin-script schools in Transdniestria

Publishing date: 4 February 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
CHISINAU, 4 February 2013 – The OSCE Mission to Moldova and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities today published a report on the situation of the eight Moldovan-administered, Latin-script schools in Transdniestria...