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Chairman-in-Office delivers first address to OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 11 January 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 11 January 2001-- OSCE participating States must make a greater collective effort to respect individual human rights, to encourage access to prosperity, social justice and equal opportunity...
Foreign Ministers welcome Yugoslavia as newest OSCE participating State
Publishing date: 27 November 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Summits / Ministerial Councils
VIENNA, 27 November 2000-- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Vojislav Kostunica added his signature to three landmark OSCE documents today, symbolizing the country's official status as the 55th OSCE participating State...
OSCE Ministerial Council meets in Vienna, 27-28 November
Publishing date: 24 November 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Summits / Ministerial Councils, Troika
VIENNA, 24 November 2000-- Children in armed conflict areas, trafficking in human beings, an agreement on small arms, and efforts to promote media freedom will be among the topics discussed at the Eighth Ministerial Council...
OSCE Chair meets Co-chairmen of OSCE Minsk Group
Publishing date: 27 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Minsk Group
VIENNA, 27 October 2000-- The Chairperson-in-Office today in Vienna received the Co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group- Russia, United States, and France...
Regional arms negotiations resume in Vienna today
Publishing date: 6 September 1999
Content type: Press release
VIENNA, 6 September 1999-- Negotiations under Article V of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Dayton/Paris Accords) resumed in Vienna today....
Deliberate shooting at KVM vehicles
Publishing date: 21 January 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
PRISTINA, 21 January-- The commander of the KLA forces in the Decani area has acknowledged publicly that his forces were responsible for the shooting and wounding of two KVM personnel on 15 January, saying it was due to a misunderstanding....
OSCE Chairman-in-Office concerned with breach of ceasefire in Kosovo
Publishing date: 27 December 1998
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
WARSAW, 27 December 1998-- Professor Bronislaw Geremek, Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs and the OSCE Chairman-in-Office expresses his deep concern with the renewed fighting and the breach of the fragile ceasefire in Kosovo in recent days....