News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office in Tajikistan supports expert conference on water management in Central Asia
Publishing date: 9 October 2008
DUSHANBE, 9 October 2008- Improving water management in Central Asia is the focus of an expert conference organized today in Dushanbe by the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS), with the support of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
OSCE media freedom representative calls for broad public consultations on Albania's draft media law
Publishing date: 8 October 2008
VIENNA, 8 October 2008- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomed the decision of the Albanian authorities to postpone the adoption of a new Law on Radio and Television...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator advocates sustainability of Ukraine's civil society sector
Publishing date: 8 October 2008
KYIV, 8 October, 2008- Evaluating the development of civil society in Ukraine and ways to enhance its sustainability are the focus of an OSCE-organized conference that opened in Kyiv today...
OSCE Mission to Serbia, U.S. Embassy and the Judicial Training Centre help fight money laundering
Publishing date: 8 October 2008
IVANJICA, Serbia, 8 October 2008- Combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism were the focus of a training course for judiciary and police officials which ended in Ivanjica today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports reopening of youth centre in Gazi Baba municipality
Publishing date: 8 October 2008
SKOPJE, 8 October 2008- A youth centre supported by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, reopened today in the Gazi Baba municipality with a new schedule of activities for young people...
Improving energy efficiency in Central and Eastern Europe focus of OSCE workshop in Minsk
Publishing date: 7 October 2008
MINSK, 7 October 2008- How to improve energy efficiency through regional co-operation in Central and Eastern Europe was the focus of a two-day regional workshop that ended here today...
OSCE Mission welcomes agreement to end impasse in Montenegro's parliament
Publishing date: 7 October 2008
PODGORICA, 7 October 2008- Ambassador Paraschiva Badescu, Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, welcomed today the agreement reached by the Parliament Collegium to end a long-standing impasse on live broadcasts of parliamentary plenary sessions...