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OSCE inaugurates Annual Security Review Conference in Vienna

Publishing date: 25 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 25 June 2003- Opening the OSCE's first-ever Annual Security Review Conference, Ambassador Daan Everts, Head of the OSCE Task Force of the Netherlands Chairmanship, called for the meeting to produce practical tasks and recommendations...

OSCE conference participants call for action to combat anti-Semitism

Publishing date: 20 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
VIENNA, 20 June 2003- The first high-level OSCE conference devoted specially to the issue of anti-Semitism ended today with calls by participants for the Organization and its 55 participating States to reaffirm their commitments made in Copenhagen...

OSCE participating States ready and willing to "take up the gauntlet" and fight anti-Semitism

Publishing date: 19 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
VIENNA, 19 June 2003- At its first conference devoted specially to the issue of anti-Semitism, the Head of the OSCE Task Force of the current Netherlands Chairmanship, Daan Everts, declared that the OSCE would assist in promoting a change of mind...

OSCE Envoy urges focus on dialogue and NGOs in Central Asia

Publishing date: 11 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization, Economic activities, Environmental activities, Human rights
VIENNA, 11 June 2003- Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, who is Personal Envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office for Central Asia, on Wednesday stressed the importance of strengthening civil society and regional co-operation in helping...

Bosnia High Representative Ashdown concerned about risk of economic crisis

Publishing date: 4 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 4 June 2003- Lord Ashdown, the High Representative and European Union Special Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), said on Wednesday he was seriously concerned about the risk of economic crisis in the country...

Chair-in-Office De Hoop Scheffer to address 12th OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session in Rotterdam

Publishing date: 3 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Secretariat
COPENHAGEN, 3 June 2003- From 5 to 9 July 2003 more than three hundred parliamentarians from the 55 OSCE participating States will gather on the premises of the Doelen Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for the Twelfth Annual Session...

Prague Economic Forum ends with concrete anti-trafficking measures recommended to OSCE States

Publishing date: 23 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
PRAGUE, 23 May 2003- Stronger involvement of the business community and the establishment of an international network of anti-trafficking non-governmental organizations, brokered by the OSCE, are among the key recommendations discussed at the...