Skip navigation

0Meta Navigation

× Close search

Navigation

Home Newsroom Press releases
Newsroom

News and press releases

Subscribe to News Updates

News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Severin visits Ukraine

Publishing date: 7 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
COPENHAGEN, 7 March 2002- From 11 to 13 March 2002, the President of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) Mr. Adrian Severin, MP (Romania) will pay an official visit to Ukraine...

OSCE's human rights office welcomes registration of independent NGO in Uzbekistan

Publishing date: 7 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
WARSAW, 7 March 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today welcomed the formal registration of the Independent Human Rights Organization by the Uzbek Ministry of Justice earlier this week...

Skopje's new Amnesty Law wins praise from OSCE

Publishing date: 8 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
LISBON, 8 March 2002- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister, Jaime Gama, has welcomed the passage of an Amnesty Law by the Parliament in Skopje as an important confidence-building measure for the future of the former Yugoslav...

Azerbaijan's President solicits OSCE intervention during visit of Chairman-in-Office

Publishing date: 8 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
LISBON, 8 March 2002- The President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, has requested the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Portugal's Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, to use all his influence to peacefully solve the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh...

OSCE reminds Kosovo's political entities of registration requirements

Publishing date: 8 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Elections
PRISTINA, 8 March 2002-Representatives of political parties in Kosovo took part in a seminar organized by the OSCE today on party registration and obligations, financial disclosure reporting and certification for the 2002 Municipal Elections...

OSCE/ODIHR urges Moldovan Government to investigate apprehension of Gagauz politician

Publishing date: 8 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Human rights
WARSAW, 8 March 2002- The ODIHR today urged the Government of Moldova to investigate in a transparent manner the circumstances of the apprehension of Gagauz politician Ivan Burgudji...

OSCE releases Summary Report on Bishkek Conference on Security and Stability in Central Asia

Publishing date: 12 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, OSCE Programme Office in Astana, Partnerships, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Border management, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 12 March 2002- The OSCE released today a Summary Report on the Bishkek International Conference on Security and Stability in Central Asia, held on 13 and 14 December 2001 in Kyrgyzstan. This conference was co-sponsored by...

Italy's Media Ownership- A Challenge to the European Constitutional Architecture

Publishing date: 12 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 12 March 2002- Special attention should be paid to media freedom and the independence of the media in the discussion on a European Constitution, stressed Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media...

Albanian tourism held back by poor environment, OSCE believes

Publishing date: 12 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
TIRANA, 12 March 2002- Protection of the environment is a priority issue for the OSCE, the Head of its Presence in Albania, Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens, told the newly appointed Minister of Environment, Lufter Xhuveli...

Tajik law enforcement bodies call for improvement of the criminal procedural code

Publishing date: 12 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
KHUJAND, 12 March 2002- A series of OSCE training seminars for law enforcement personnel on human and civil rights during arrest, detention and pre-trial investigation has concluded in the Sughd province, Tajikistan...