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Kazakhstan confirms interest in taking on OSCE Chairmanship in 2009
Publishing date: 6 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 6 April 2004- On his second stop during a five-day visit to the Central Asian States, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, discussed Kazakhstan's bid to take on the OSCE Chairmanship in 2009...
OSCE-UN meeting works out details for new Kazakhstani-Kyrgyz water management commission
Publishing date: 30 March 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 30 March 2004- Regulations and financing arrangements of a new regional water resource management between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were discussed at a meeting held in Almaty last week...
Kazakhstan's young journalists take part in OSCE-sponsored master classes
Publishing date: 16 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Media freedom and development
ATYRAU, 16 February 2004- The OSCE Centre in Almaty's first master class training for young journalists kicked off today in Kazakhstan's Caspian port city of Atyrau. The programme is aimed at giving students and young professionals the...
OSCE Centre in Almaty to hold workshop on draft environmental information law
Publishing date: 11 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 11 February 2004- A workshop that will enable environmental non-governmental organizations to discuss the establishment of legal guarantees for access to information on environmental matters will be held in Almaty on 13 February...
OSCE launches environmental education project in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 January 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 23 January 2004- An environmental education project is being launched on Monday in Kazakhstan by the OSCE Centre in Almaty in co-operation with the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC). The project will run until...
OSCE Almaty roundtable to focus on problem of juvenile delinquency
Publishing date: 12 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ALMATY, 12 December 2003- Discussion of the legal status of under-aged offenders who are not criminally liable due to their youth will bring together Kazakhstan's human rights experts at a roundtable next week. In criminological terminology...
Transparency of oil revenues holds the key to industrial success, Almaty seminar hears
Publishing date: 24 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization
ALMATY, 24 November 2003- Participants at a roundtable in Kazakhstan, co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Almaty, discussed the importance of transparency of contracts in the taxation of oil operations, the country's biggest revenue service. The...