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Armenian police training centre opens after renovation
Publishing date: 23 March 2007
YEREVAN, 23 March 2007- An Armenian police training Centre, renovated as part of an OSCE police assistance programme, opened in Yerevan today. Under the programme, implemented by the OSCE Office in Yerevan in co-operation with the Armenian Police...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes French acquittal in cartoons row
Publishing date: 22 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 22 March 2007- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said he welcomes today's acquittal of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in a trial initiated in 2006 by Muslim institutions for publishing three cartoons...
OSCE Moldova Mission and Defence Ministry to destroy surplus weapons
Publishing date: 22 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
CHISINAU, 22 March 2007- More than 11,000 artillery shells, 377 anti-tank guided missiles and almost half a million rounds of ammunition will be destroyed thanks to a project agreed on today by the Moldovan Defence Ministry and the OSCE Mission...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports training on decentralization in education
Publishing date: 21 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Education
SKOPJE, 21 March 2007- Educating trainers who in turn will teach parents and teachers about their rights and responsibilities in the decentralized education system is the purpose of a series of workshops, the first of which concluded today...
OSCE advisory teams help promote human rights in Kosovo's ministries
Publishing date: 21 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
PRISTINA, 21 March 2007- Ambassador Werner Wnendt, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, will today host a ceremony in Prishtine/Pristina to mark the first year of the deployment of OSCE Human Rights Advisory Teams in Kosovo ministries...
OSCE Mission to Skopje helps develop community policing
Publishing date: 21 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Policing, Rule of law
SKOPJE, 21 March 2007- Ten scooters worth more than 30,000 euros were handed over by the OSCE Mission to the Interior Ministry in Skopje today. They will be used to boost the efficiency of the OSCE-supported community-policing programme...
OSCE focuses on combating illicit trafficking of small arms, light weapons by air
Publishing date: 21 March 2007
VIENNA, 21 March 2007- The OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation held a special meeting today to discuss ways of combating the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons by air...