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Multi-ethnic media agency to open in former Macedonian crisis area
Publishing date: 14 May 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Media freedom and development, National minority issues
SKOPJE, 14 May 2002- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje welcomes the official opening this week of a multi-ethnic media project in Tetovo, a city of 70,000 people located in a former crisis area in the...
OSCE welcomes agreement on new laws under Ohrid Agreement
Publishing date: 13 May 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 13 May 2002- The OSCE Mission notes with great satisfaction the agreement reached on Saturday on the texts of 16 very important laws mentioned in the Ohrid Agreement. As agreed by the parties, the laws...
OSCE Mission congratulates police service members on Day of Macedonian Police
Publishing date: 8 May 2002
SKOPJE, 7 May 2002- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje congratulates the members of the Macedonian police service on the occasion of the Day of Macedonian Police today. The OSCE Mission has worked very closely with the country's...
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
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...
OSCE Secretary General welcomes agreement with European Commission on policing operation
Publishing date: 28 February 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Policing
VIENNA, 28 February 2002- The OSCE Secretary General, Jan Kubis, today informed the Organization's 55-nation Permanent Council that the first Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the OSCE and the European Commission...
OSCE/ODIHR to send expanded observation mission to monitor Macedonian elections
Publishing date: 28 February 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
SKOPJE, 28 February 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will send an expanded observation mission to monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...
Head of OSCE Mission to Skopje welcomes progress in Matejce
Publishing date: 18 February 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 18 February 2002- The conflict-torn village of Matejce, located some 40 km north of Skopje, took a major step towards reconciliation last Thursday, when the ethnically mixed local community council reconvened for the first time...