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OSCE Chairman strongly condemns violence in Kosovo

Publishing date: 18 March 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Media freedom and development, National minority issues
SOFIA, 18 March 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, condemned the outbreak of violence in Kosovo in which many people were killed or injured. "I strongly deplore yesterday's and today's violence," he said...

OSCE Mission strongly condemns violence in Kosovo

Publishing date: 18 March 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues
PRISTINA, 18 March 2004- The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Pascal Fieschi, has expressed extreme dismay at the numerous acts of violence throughout Kosovo yesterday, which has left a number of people dead and scores of others wounded...

OSCE High Commissioner visits the Russian Federation

Publishing date: 12 March 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: National minority issues
THE HAGUE, 12 March 2004- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, visited the Russian Federation on 9-11 March as part of his ongoing dialogue with the Russian Government. During the visit...

New Georgian leadership welcomes activities of OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

Publishing date: 3 March 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, National minority issues
TBLISI, 3 March 2004- OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Rolf Ekeus, who is in the middle of a three-day visit to Georgia, has been meeting the country's new leadership as well as representatives of its minority communities...

OSCE Mission to Croatia report finds ethnic Serbs "disadvantaged" in war crime trials

Publishing date: 1 March 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
ZAGREB, 1 March 2004- The OSCE Mission to Croatia has prepared a report based on monitoring of some 75 war crime trials during 2002 which shows that defendants of Serb ethnicity are disadvantaged at all stages of judicial proceedings compared to...

OSCE High Commissioner visits Latvia to learn at first-hand about minority education reforms

Publishing date: 27 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
VIENNA, 27 February- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Rolf Ekeus, ended a three-day working visit to Latvia today, during which he discussed such matters as minority education reforms, naturalization and social integration...

Head of OSCE: Shocked and saddened at death of Macedonian President Trajkovski

Publishing date: 26 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues
WASHINGTON, D.C., 26 February 2004- The news that President Boris Trajkovski, leader of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia since 1999, has died in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina reached the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE...