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Annual OSCE human rights conference opens on Monday
Publishing date: 5 September 2002
Content type: Press release
WARSAW, 5 September 2002- The annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting will kick off on Monday, 9 September, in Warsaw with a speech by the former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari. More than 500 participants are expected at...
OSCE/ODIHR starts observation of presidential elections in Serbia
Publishing date: 2 September 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
BELGRADE, 2 September 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established an election observation mission to monitor the presidential election scheduled for 29 September in the Republic of Serbia. The mission...
OSCE/ODIHR dismisses calls for boycott of Montenegrin elections
Publishing date: 30 August 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 30 August 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today dismissed calls by some political parties for a boycott of the parliamentary elections in Montenegro scheduled for 6 October...
Finnish MP Kiljunen to lead OSCE observation of Macedonian parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 29 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Elections
COPENHAGEN, 29 August 2002- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz, has appointed the Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Kimmo Kiljunen, MP (Finland), to act as his Special...
Largest pan-European human rights conference convenes in Warsaw
Publishing date: 28 August 2002
Content type: Press release
WARSAW, 28 August 2002- More than 500 government representatives, international experts and human rights activists will gather in Warsaw from 9 to 19 September to attend Europe's largest human rights and democratization conference. The...
Bujanovac elections conducted in accordance with international standards and Serbian election laws
Publishing date: 26 August 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
BELGRADE, 26 August 2002- The OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has concluded that the second partially repeated elections in Bujanovac on 25 August were generally conducted in accordance with international standards...
OSCE/ODIHR opens observation mission to monitor Slovak elections
Publishing date: 22 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
BRATISLAVA, 23 August 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established an election observation mission to monitor the elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic scheduled for 20 and 21 September...