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OSCE Chairman-in-Office voices deep concern at "harsh" jail sentence imposed on Belarusian opposition leader

Publishing date: 14 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections, Rule of law
BRUSSELS, 14 July 2006- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, has expressed his deep concern following the announcement yesterday of guilty verdicts and a jail sentence on Dr. Alexander Kozulin, an opposition candidate...

OSCE Office issues statement on opposition youth activists trial in Azerbaijan

Publishing date: 13 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Rule of law
BAKU, 13 July 2006- The OSCE Office in Baku issued the following statement today on the trial of members of the youth organization Yeni Fikir. "The OSCE Office in Baku notes the judgments at the trials...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office defends Centre in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 27 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Democratization, Rule of law
BRUSSELS, 27 June 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, defended the Organization's Centre in Ashgabad today and rejected persistent allegations that Turkmenistan is making against an OSCE staff member there...

Montenegro welcomed onto OSCE Permanent Council as 56th participating State

Publishing date: 22 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization
VIENNA, 22 June 2006- Newly independent Montenegro today became the 56th State to take its seat as an independent country at the OSCE Permanent Council, the Organization's main negotiating and decision-taking body. The last state to join was Andorra...

Croatian democratic institutions made considerable progress, OSCE Mission report says

Publishing date: 13 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing
ZAGREB, 13 June 2006- Croatia's democratic institutions in the field of civil society, police and media have made considerable progress towards becoming self-sustainable, the OSCE Mission to Croatia says in a report that will be presented to OSCE...

OSCE Presence supports preparation of Tirana value map for restitution and compensation of property

Publishing date: 13 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Democratization
TIRANA, 13 June 2006- The OSCE Presence in Albania and the Albanian State Committee on Property Restitution and Compensation today signed an agreement that provides for the preparation of a property value map for the region of Tirana in four months...

OSCE Office launches training programme for parliamentary staff in Armenia

Publishing date: 12 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Education
YEREVAN, 12 June 2006- A three-week parliamentary staff training programme that aims to support a more effective, professional and transparent law-making process began today in Yerevan. The course has been organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan...