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OSCE announces that confidence- and security-building agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina will end in September 2004

Publishing date: 24 June 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 23 June 2004- The Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO for Articles II and IV, General Claudio Zappulla, announced today that the Agreement on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in Bosnia and Herzegovina will end in September...

OSCE Ambassadors press Transdniestrian authorities to be more constructive

Publishing date: 11 June 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Arms control, Democratization, Border management
CHISINAU, 11 June 2004- At a press conference today, a high-level OSCE delegation visiting Moldova pressed the authorities of the separatist Transdniestrian region to take a more constructive stance in the negotiation process on a settlement...

OSCE States agree to tighten controls over export of shoulder-fired missiles

Publishing date: 26 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control, Countering terrorism, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 26 May 2004- In a significant move to reduce the risk of terrorists getting their hands on portable missiles that can bring down civil and military aircraft, the OSCE has taken a decision to tighten export controls on so-called MANPADS...

OSCE Magazine highlights Kosovo, BiH education reform and Russian role in OSCE

Publishing date: 6 May 2004
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, 6 May 2004- The impact of recent events in Kosovo on the OSCE's work, the relationship between Russia and the Organization, and a special report on education reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina are among the highlights of the Magazine's May issue...

OSCE Mission assists in handover of weapons and munitions in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict

Publishing date: 30 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Arms control
TBILISI, 30 April 2004- Engineers of the Joint Peacekeeping Force carried out on Thursday the destruction of weapons and munitions collected under the OSCE Mission to Georgia Rapid Reaction programme in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict.

OSCE Chairman encourages Bosnian officials to go ahead with education and defence reform

Publishing date: 29 March 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Arms control, Democratization
SARAJEVO, 29 March 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, highly appreciated the political stability in the country and the progress achieved in the implementation of the Peace Agreements...

OSCE hosts first-ever international workshop on threat of shoulder-fired missiles to civil aviation

Publishing date: 23 January 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Countering terrorism, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 23 January 2004- The growing threat that man-portable air defence systems (MANPADs) in the hands of terrorists pose against civil aviation topped the agenda of an international conference held jointly by the OSCE and the International Civil...