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OSCE Chairman calls for international code of conduct on dealing with hostage-taking
Publishing date: 20 July 2004
NEW YORK, 20 July 2004-The OSCE's Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, called on the international community on Tuesday to develop a code of conduct for responding to hostage-taking...
OSCE Chairman calls for focus on new areas in fight against terrorism
Publishing date: 23 June 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 23 June 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, called on Wednesday on the OSCE States to focus on new areas such as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials in the fight against terrorism...
OSCE Chairman condemns terrorist attack in Chechnya
Publishing date: 10 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
ZAGREB, 10 May 2004- OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy strongly condemned Sunday's terrorist attack in Chechnya, in which Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov and a number of other people were killed. He called the Grozny bomb blast "a vicious act of"...
OSCE Chairman condemns terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 30 March 2004
VIENNA, 30 March, 2004- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Solomon Passy, today voiced his shock at the continued spate of terrorist attacks which now have entered a third day in Uzbekistan, a participating State of the Organization...
UN-OSCE counter-terrorism conference begins with minute's silence for Madrid victims
Publishing date: 11 March 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 11 March 2004- A UN-OSCE counter-terrorism conference in Vienna began on Thursday with a minute's silence in honour of the victims of terrorist bomb attacks in Madrid earlier in the day...
OSCE Chairman condemns bomb attacks in Madrid
Publishing date: 11 March 2004
SOFIA, 11 March 2004- The OSCE's Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, condemned Thursday's terrorist bomb attacks in Madrid and offered his condolences to the people of Spain. "I am utterly appalled...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office pledges closer co-operation with NATO
Publishing date: 21 January 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
BRUSSELS, 21 January 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, pledged to strengthen co-operation with NATO at a meeting with the Alliance's new Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Wednesday...