News and press releases

SOFIA, 8 September 2004- As part of its ongoing effort to encourage negotiations over the Transdniestrian problems, the Bulgarian OSCE Chairmanship has announced that a Special Envoy will travel to Moldova...

SOFIA, 4 September 2004- OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy offered his sincere condolences to the Russian people over the brutal terrorist act which led to the loss of hundreds of innocent lives. "Words are powerless...

SOFIA, 3 September 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, welcomed the decision by authorities in Estonia to dismantle a controversial war monument. He expressed his appreciation for the effective action taken by...

SOFIA, 2 September 2004- The OSCE's Bulgarian Chairmanship has again expressed its willingness to co-operate with the Russian Federation in improving the situation in the Chechen Republic. Ambassador Ivan Naydenov...

SOFIA, 1 September 2004- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Passy, expressed outrage over the seizure by terrorists of a school in Beslan in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, where children and adults are being held hostage...

SOFIA, 22 August 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office expressed support for the Estonian government in its objections to the erection of a controversial monument commemorating Estonians who fought on the side of Nazi forces in World War Two...

SOFIA, 20 August 2004- OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy expressed concern over recent developments in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in messages to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity. In a