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Skopje's new Amnesty Law wins praise from OSCE

Publishing date: 8 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
LISBON, 8 March 2002- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister, Jaime Gama, has welcomed the passage of an Amnesty Law by the Parliament in Skopje as an important confidence-building measure for the future of the former Yugoslav...

Azerbaijan's President solicits OSCE intervention during visit of Chairman-in-Office

Publishing date: 8 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
LISBON, 8 March 2002- The President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, has requested the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Portugal's Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, to use all his influence to peacefully solve the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh...

Chairman-in-Office praises Georgian counter-terrorism efforts

Publishing date: 7 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
TBILISI, 7 March 2002- In the course of a four-day visit to the South Caucasus, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), Portugal's Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, paid an official visit to Georgia, on 5 and 6 March...

Focus placed on rights of Ukrainian military personnel at recent seminar

Publishing date: 5 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
KYIV, 5 March 2002- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator, together with representatives of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and the International Society for Human Rights (Ukrainian section), recently hosted a seminar meant to support

OSCE urges cuts in defence spending by Bosnia and Herzegovina

Publishing date: 28 January 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SARAJEVO, 28 January 2002- Representatives of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have urged the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to cut military expenditures in a meeting today...

Local community leader beaten and denounced as "traitor"

Publishing date: 24 January 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Border management, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SKOPJE, 24 January 2002- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje strongly condemns the serious incident which occurred yesterday evening in Tearce, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, when a group of armed people severely beat up...

New OSCE Chairman-in-Office makes fight against terrorism Organization's priority for 2002

Publishing date: 17 January 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Arms control, Democratization, Border management, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 17 January 2002- The new OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, today announced in his first speech to the Organization's 55-nation Permanent Council that the fight against terrorism will be one of OSCE's priorities