News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to monitor investigation into 1999 bombing of Serb state media station
Publishing date: 10 August 2001
BELGRADE, 10 August 2001 (OSCE)-- Representatives of the OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia met with relatives of two victims of the 1999 Radio Televizija Srbije (RTS) bombing in Aberdareva Street...
OSCE condemns irresponsible publication of personal data in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 9 August 2001
SARAJEVO, 9 August 2001 (OSCE)- On Monday, the Bosnia and Herzegovina daily Glas Srpski published a 12-page list of names provided by the Republika Srpska Government Documentation Centre in Banja Luka. The names purportedly belong to individuals...
Attack at Kosovo registration centre condemned as "cowardly and shameful"
Publishing date: 9 August 2001
PRISTINA, 9 August 2001 (OSCE)-- The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Daan Everts, has whole-heartedly condemned the attack on an elderly Roma woman outside a registration centre...
Chairman-in-Office Geoana commends Kazakhstan for abolition of exit visas
Publishing date: 2 August 2001
BUCHAREST, 2 August 2001 (OSCE)- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, took note with appreciation of the removal, by the Kazakh Government, of the exit visas system, following the decree on 28 July...
OSCE welcomes abolition of exit permits in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 31 July 2001
ALMATY, 31 July 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Centre in Almaty commends Kazakhstan for having abolished the so-called exit visas by governmental decree on 28 July. In the light of OSCE commitments and repeated recommendations from the OSCE...
Freimut Duve concerned over attack on journalists in Genoa
Publishing date: 27 July 2001
VIENNA, 27 July 2001 (OSCE)-- On 27 July, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, intervened with the Italian Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero regarding actions by the Italian police against journalists...
OSCE organizes training on women's rights in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 20 July 2001
SAMARKAND, 20 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Centre in Tashkent together with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will hold from 23 to 26 July a training on human rights report writing in Samarkand, Uzbekistan...