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OSCE Chairman-in-Office calls for plan of action to fight terrorism

Publishing date: 21 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Summits / Ministerial Councils, Permanent Council
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Border management, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, called today on all 55 OSCE participating States to work together to develop an OSCE-wide plan of action for the fight against terrorism...

OSCE South-eastern Europe Heads of Mission meet in Croatia

Publishing date: 24 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed), OSCE Mission to Serbia, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Elections
ZAGREB, 24 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Ambassador Bernard Poncet is hosting a meeting of the Heads of OSCE Missions and Offices in South-eastern Europe in Bezanec Castle, near Zagreb, on 24 and 25 September 2001

Head of Mission welcomes certification of Kosovo Serb citizens' initiative

Publishing date: 24 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Elections
PRISTINA, 24 September 2001 (OSCE)-- A Kosovo Serb citizens\' initiative has been certified to take part in the 2001 Assembly Election by the Central Election Commission (CEC)...

Voters' list for Kosovo Assembly election to top one million

Publishing date: 24 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Elections
PRISTINA, 24 September 2001 (OSCE)-- Almost 350,000 people in Kosovo and beyond had visited combined Voter Services and Registration Centres by Saturday\'s deadline...

OSCE human rights office calls for independent investigation of unsolved disappearances and murders in Belarus and Ukraine

Publishing date: 24 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
WARSAW, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE's human rights institution, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today called for an independent investigation of the murder of the Ukrainian journalist Georgyi Gongadze...

Radio Television Kosovo Board of Directors to hold first meeting

Publishing date: 25 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 25 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The first meeting of the Board of Directors of Radio-Television Kosovo (RTK), is being held today, chaired by Ambassdor Daan Everts, OSCE Head of Mission...

Chairperson of Board of Directors of Radio-Television Kosovo elected

Publishing date: 26 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 26 September 2001 (OSCE)-- At its first meeting yesterday, the Board of Directors of Radio-Television Kosovo (RTK), the province\'s independent public service broadcaster, elected Adem Demaci as its chairperson...

OSCE to organize conference on import and storage of radioactive waste in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 26 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
ALMATY, 10 September 2001 (OSCE)- On 19 and 20 October, an OSCE-initiated two-day conference focusing on the import and storage of radioactive waste in Kazakhstan is scheduled to take place in the country\'s capital Almaty...

Freimut Duve: fighting terrorism should not be used as an excuse to violate basic human rights

Publishing date: 27 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 27 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The world public is still mourning the victims of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Many governments are already actively developing new approaches to their securit...

OSCE sets up hot line for journalists in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 28 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 28 September 2001 (OSCE)-- In the aftermath of the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., that led to numerous casualties and prompted governments to prepare to combat terror, hundreds of journalists are either on their way or are already...