News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
UN Mission in Kosovo at most critical phase, UNMIK Head tells OSCE
Publishing date: 8 May 2003
VIENNA, 8 May 2003- The United Nations Mission in Kosovo has entered what is perhaps its most critical and delicate phase as powers are transferred from the international community to local bodies, Michael Steiner, Special Representative of the UN...
Parliamentarians to join OSCE short-term observation of Armenian elections
Publishing date: 6 May 2003
COPENHAGEN, 6 May 2003- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA) will send a large delegation of OSCE parliamentarians to observe the parliamentary elections in Armenia on 25 May. In...
Hundreds of cyclists tour Montenegro, Albania and Italy to highlight scourge of trafficking
Publishing date: 6 May 2003
TIRANA, 6 May 2003- Over 400 hundred people took part in a ten-day biking tour through Montenegro, Albania and Italy to raise awareness about human trafficking. The tour, which started in Podgorica, Montenegro, on 27 April finished in Durres...
Serbia and Kosovo media executives come together for first time in a decade
Publishing date: 6 May 2003
PRISTINA, 6 May 2003- Leading editors-in-chief and media executives from Serbia and Kosovo will be gathering in Ohrid, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYROM), from 7 to 9 May. The conference, organized and financed by the OSCE Mission in...
Barbara Haering chairs Bern Conference on Fostering Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the OSCE area
Publishing date: 6 May 2003
COPENHAGEN, 6 May 2003- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) will hold a Conference on Promoting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the OSCE Area from 14-16 May...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo distributes human rights remedies catalogue
Publishing date: 6 May 2003
PRISTINA, 6 May 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo (OMIK) is about to deliver 600 copies of a new human rights publication to local and international authorities in Kosovo with the aim of helping them to better monitor the implementation and...
Tajik journalists celebrate Press Freedom Day with OSCE Centre in Dushanbe
Publishing date: 5 May 2003
DUSHANBE, 5 May 2003- Some five hundred journalists from across Tajikistan gathered to celebrate World Press Freedom Day at a special event in Dushanbe on Saturday. The winners of a competition on how democratic and socio-economic reforms for...
Media freedom deteriorates in some OSCE States, says OSCE media watchdog
Publishing date: 2 May 2003
VIENNA, 2 May 2003- The general state of the media in OSCE participating States and the safety of journalists working in hostile environments will be two themes on which the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, will focus...
OSCE Centre in Ashgabad contributes to first roundtable in Turkmenistan on legal ethics
Publishing date: 2 May 2003
ASHGABAD, 2 May 2003- The OSCE Centre in Ashgabad contributed to a roundtable held in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabad, today, entitled "Legal Ethics for Legal Advisers". The event, the first at which this issue was discussed in Turkmenistan, was...
Five Ambassadors to OSCE start Central Asian tour in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 2 May 2003
BISHKEK, 2 May 2003- A delegation of five Ambassadors to the OSCE finished a three-day visit to Kyrgyzstan today, their first stop on a tour of three Central Asian states. The Heads of the permanent delegations of Bulgaria, France, Ireland...