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Head of OSCE Office in Minsk visits Alexander Vasilyev in prison hospital

Publishing date: 13 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Human rights
MINSK, 13 April 2005- The Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk today visited Alexander Vasilyev in the First Colony prison hospital in Minsk. Mr. Vasilyev and his associate Valery Levonevski were sentenced to two years of imprisonment for defaming the...

OSCE Mission to Croatia concerned returnees may lose homes

Publishing date: 8 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
ZAGREB, 8 April 2005- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia is concerned that an increasing number of Serb returnees in Croatia may lose their homes due to unfair and incomplete legal regulations and biased decisions by some local courts. The recent...

Human rights centre in south Kyrgyzstan to be a bridge between NGOs and new authorities, OSCE Centre says

Publishing date: 8 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights
OSH, 8 April 2005- A new human rights resource centre in southern Kyrgyzstan was opened today by the OSCE Field Office in Osh. It is expected to serve as a bridge between local NGOs and authorities on human rights issues. It will become a platform and...

OSCE Magazine focuses on changes in Ukraine, challenges facing Slovenian Chairmanship

Publishing date: 4 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 4 April 2005- An insider's account of the dramatic events behind the scenes during the recent political crisis in Ukraine and an overview of the first hectic months of Slovenia's OSCE Chairmanship are the lead items in the latest OSCE Magazine...

OSCE Chairman Dimitrij Rupel pays tribute to Pope John Paul II

Publishing date: 3 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights
LJUBLJANA, 3 April 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, paid tribute to the late Pope John Paul II on Sunday, describing him as probably the most important European personality of the last quarter of the 20th...

OSCE prepared to assist further with solving conflicts in Georgia

Publishing date: 1 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management, Human rights, Policing
TBILISI, 1 April 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel pledged the Organization's support to promote peaceful settlements of the Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts, during talks in Tbilisi, Friday. "Peaceful resolution of...

Head of OSCE Minsk Office visits Mikhail Marinich in prison hospital

Publishing date: 23 March 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Human rights
MINSK, 23 March 2005- The Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk, Ambassador Eberhard Heyken, together with British Ambassador Brian Bennett and the lawyer Vera Stremkovksaya, today visited former Minister of Foreign Economics Relations Mikhail Marinich in...