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Anti-corruption public reception Centre opens in Stepanavan with OSCE help
Publishing date: 18 May 2007
STEPANAVAN, Armenia, 18 May 2007- Legal, procedural and practical consultations for citizens on possible corruption cases will be provided by a new public reception Centre that opened in Stepanavan, Armenia's Lori province, with OSCE support...
OSCE Mission trains Montenegrin police officers on surveillance techniques
Publishing date: 18 May 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Democratization, Policing
DANILOVGRAD, 18 May 2007- Montenegrin police officers studied surveillance techniques and how they can be used to fight organized crime during an OSCE Mission to Montenegro training course that ended today...
OSCE media freedom representative expresses shock after more Azerbaijani journalists jailed, calls on authorities to stop prosecutions for libel
Publishing date: 17 May 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 17 May 2007- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said today he was shocked to hear the news about the imprisonment of two more Azerbaijani journalists for libel...
OSCE Office holds seminar on access to justice in environmental matters in Armenia
Publishing date: 17 May 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Environmental activities
YEREVAN, 17 May 2007- Raising awareness among judges, prosecutors and lawyers on the Aarhus Convention and its access to justice component was the aim of an OSCE-supported seminar held in Yerevan today...
OSCE Office helps open public environmental information centres in Armenian provinces
Publishing date: 16 May 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Environmental activities
YEREVAN, 16 May 2007- Aarhus public environmental information Centres will be opened in in the Kotayk, Shirak and Gegharkunik provinces of Armenia...
OSCE Mission welcomes establishment of new Serbian Government
Publishing date: 16 May 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 16 May 2007- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, today welcomed the formation of a new, pro-European government in Serbia. "Following a long and difficult process...
South Caucasus needs improved customs service co-operation, OSCE meeting concludes
Publishing date: 15 May 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Economic activities, Rule of law
TBILISI, 15 May 2007- Countries in South Caucasus need to foster better co-operation among their customs services to prosper, participants in a two-day conference co-organized by the OSCE Secretariat in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Georgia...