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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Chairman-in-Office praises Georgian counter-terrorism efforts
Publishing date: 7 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
TBILISI, 7 March 2002- In the course of a four-day visit to the South Caucasus, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), Portugal's Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, paid an official visit to Georgia, on 5 and 6 March...
OSCE expresses concern on "parliamentary elections" in Abkhazia, Georgia
Publishing date: 1 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
LISBON, 1 March 2002- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Portugal's Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, expressed his deep concern at the intention of the Abkhaz leadership to conduct...
Byte-ing the bullet: OSCE offers computers in exchange for weapons in Georgia
Publishing date: 26 February 2002
TBILISI, 26 February 2002- The OSCE Mission to Georgia today handed over three computers to a secondary school where parents had organized the voluntary hand-over of small arms, in response to a weapons collection campaign...
OSCE Georgia Mission expands border monitoring operation
Publishing date: 2 January 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management
TBILISI, 2 January 2002-- The OSCE Mission to Georgia today deployed a team of five international border monitors to the village of Sno, north-eastern Georgia, where a new OSCE border monitoring base has been established
OSCE Georgia Mission and European Commission sign assistance agreement
Publishing date: 21 December 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
TBILISI, 21 December 2001- Yesterday, the OSCE Mission to Georgia and the European Commission (EC) signed a Grant Agreement of 210,000 euros in Brussels. The grant is a European Union contribution for the strengthening...
Permanent Council agrees to expand OSCE border monitoring operation in Georgia
Publishing date: 14 December 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management
VIENNA, 14 December 2001- The OSCE's Permanent Council agreed yesterday to an expansion of the two-year-old border monitoring operation run by the Organization's Mission to Georgia...
OSCE co-organizes conference with Georgian, Abkhaz and Ossetian drug specialists
Publishing date: 1 October 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Democratization
TBLISI, 1 October 2001-- From 26 to 28 September, the OSCE co-organized a conference on drug addiction for physicians-narcologists in Chakvi (Ajar Autonomous Republic), Georgia...