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OSCE Skopje Mission helps keep borders open but safe

Publishing date: 6 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SKOPJE, 6 August 2004- A second generation of 279 Border Police Officers graduated today from the Idrizovo Police Academy, which is supported by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. As former members of the Defence Ministry's Border Brigade...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office deeply concerned over deterioration of situation in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict

Publishing date: 30 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SOFIA, 30 July 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Solomon Passy, expressed his deep concern with the further deterioration of the situation in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict during the last 48 hours...

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 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 parliamentarians and conflict prevention experts discuss parliamentary oversight of security sector

Publishing date: 25 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Democratization, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 25 May 2004- Over 150 participants, drawn from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, together with experts from the OSCE delegations, are meeting for two days in Vienna to focus on the question: Parliamentary Oversight of Armed Forces, and Police...

Ambassadors sign agreements worth 790,000 euros for OSCE's mine action in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 25 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
DUSHANBE, 25 May 2004- Agreements to provide support worth 790,000 euros to the OSCE's first mine action in Tajikistan were signed during a visit to this Central Asian state by five ambassadors to the OSCE. The funding will be used to establish, train...

OSCE Chairman encourages UN Security Council to seek OSCE support in Iraq, Afghanistan

Publishing date: 7 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
NEW YORK, 7 May 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy told the UN Security Council on Friday that the 55-nation security body would be willing to offer its assistance in rebuilding democratic institutions in Iraq and Afghanistan if requested...