News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Council of Europe and OSCE launch European Charter on Youth Participation
Publishing date: 28 March 2002
SARAJEVO, 28 March 2002- The Council of Europe office in Sarajevo and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina have launched today the BiH edition of the "European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Municipal and Regional Life"...
OSCE welcomes agreement on constitutional amendments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 28 March 2002
SARAJEVO, 28 March 2002- OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina welcomes the agreement reached on 27 March on the implementation of the Constituent Peoples' decision. The agreement is the result of the firm determination...
Melange Project: beating dangerous fuel into fertilizer
Publishing date: 28 March 2002
TBILISI, 28 March 2002- An OSCE-supervised project in Georgia to produce fertilizers from extremely dangerous missile fuel is well underway. Two German experts working on the field gave positive account of their evaluation of the "Melange...
Ukrainian parliamentary elections mark progress but flaws persist
Publishing date: 1 April 2002
KYIV, 1 April 2002- The parliamentary elections in Ukraine indicate progress towards international standards, but important flaws persist, the International Election Observation Mission said in a statement issued today...
OSCE concerned about attack on Kazakh senator
Publishing date: 2 April 2002
ALMATY, 2 April 2002- The OSCE Centre in Almaty is deeply concerned about the fact that, in the early morning of 2 April, special police forces physically attacked a Member of Parliament. Senator Zauresh Battalova said that she was subjected...
New code of conduct on elections approved in Kosovo
Publishing date: 2 April 2002
PRISTINA, 2 April 2002- The Central Election Commission (CEC) has approved the ground rules that will govern the conduct and campaign activities of those contesting the second municipal elections in Kosovo later this year...
OSCE Media Representative raises concern over media freedom with Israeli Foreign Minister
Publishing date: 4 April 2002
VIENNA, 4 April 2002- "I am very concerned about the reported limitations imposed on the media, the violence against journalists [] promoted by the army of Israel," Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has stressed...
Kosovo's Municipal Election Commissions take on greater responsibilities
Publishing date: 4 April 2002
PRISTINA, 4 April 2002- Municipal Election Commissions (MEC) in Kosovo will move a step further towards becoming permanent election management bodies in each of the province's 30 municipalities. Electoral Rule No. 2/2002, issued by...
Agreement on protocol to implement ODIHR recommendations reached in Albania
Publishing date: 5 April 2002
TIRANA, 5 April 2002- The Chairmen of the Socialist Party and the Democratic Party of Albania have reached agreement today on a protocol addressing some of the issues on which the two parties had some difficulties in reaching an understanding...
OSCE welcomes Serbian Government's approval of draft Law on Broadcasting
Publishing date: 5 April 2002
BELGRADE, 5 April 2002- The OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) welcomes the approval of the draft Law on Broadcasting and the decision of the Serbian Government to pass it immediately to Parliament, asking for it to be examined...