News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Polls open in Kosovo's assembly election
Publishing date: 17 November 2001
PRISTINA, 17 November 2001- Voting has started in Kosovo's assembly election. The province's citizens will be able to cast their ballots within the next 12 hours, until 19:00. Kosovo's electorate is 1.25 million strong. Voting will be taking place...
Kosovo Assembly election brings democracy forward and strengthens regional stability
Publishing date: 18 November 2001
PRISTINA, 18 November 2001- Yesterday's Assembly election in Kosovo was a significant step towards constructing a democratic society based on human rights and the rule of law in the aftermath of the 1999 conflict...
Kosovo Serbs take seat on Central Election Commission
Publishing date: 18 November 2001
PRISTINA, 18 November 2001 (OSCE)-- Two new members joined Kosovo's Central Election Commission at its post election meeting on Sunday...
Chairman-in-Office hails peaceful Kosovo-wide election
Publishing date: 18 November 2001
BUCHAREST, 18 November 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geona, has welcomed the peaceful conduct of Kosovo's first assembly election...
OSCE Mission to Yugoslavia pleased with the establishment of Prosecutors Association
Publishing date: 19 November 2001
BELGRADE, 19 November 2001- The OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is pleased with the recent establishment of an Association of Public Prosecutors that held its constitutive assembly on 17 November...
Women decision-makers from Central Asia meet to discuss legal reform
Publishing date: 19 November 2001
DUSHANBE, 19 November 2001- A two-day international conference on the role of women in legal reform in three of the States of Central Asia and Russia was held on 15 and 16 November in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe...
First official results in Kosovo election announced
Publishing date: 19 November 2001
PRISTINA, 19 November 2001 (OSCE)-- The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Daan Everts, has announced the preliminary results of the Assembly Election held on Saturday, 17 November. The figures show that the Democratic League of...
Panel discussions on 11 September events held in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 19 November 2001
TASHKENT, 19 November 2001-- On 19 November, the OSCE Centre in Tashkent co-organized in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, a conference on the 11 September events and their impact on the Central Asian region...
OSCE Ministerial Council agenda will examine counter-terrorism measures
Publishing date: 20 November 2001
VIENNA, 20 November 2001 (OSCE)- An action plan on counter-terrorism measures will feature on the agenda of the OSCE's Ninth Ministerial Council, which is scheduled to take place on 3 and 4 December in the Palace of Parliament, Bucharest...
OSCE and Stability Pact Co-ordinator in Yugoslavia sign agreement on co-operation
Publishing date: 20 November 2001
BELGRADE, 20 November 2001- The Head of the OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), Stefano Sannino, and the National Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe of the FRY, Milan Pajevic, have today signed...