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OSCE Centre organizes training for Turkmenistan's border and customs officials
Publishing date: 19 June 2007
ASHGABAD, 19 June 2007- Six members of Turkmenistan's border and customs services have taken part in a week-long practical training course in south Germany on proper border management...
OSCE important tool to find new ways to solve military problems, says Polish ex-president
Publishing date: 19 June 2007
VIENNA, 19 June 2007- It is time to look at military problems in a different way and avoid a return to Cold War rhetoric, and the OSCE is well placed to help countries do this, former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski told the...
OSCE Minsk Office organizes seminar on alternative energy sources
Publishing date: 19 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
MINSK, 19 June 2007- Creating legal conditions for developing renewable alternative energy sources is the focus of a seminar organized by the OSCE Office and the National Law Drafting Centre in Minsk today...
Polling in second round of Moldova's local elections slightly improved, but serious shortcomings remain
Publishing date: 18 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
CHISINAU, 18 June 2007- Election Day procedures during yesterday's second round of local elections in Moldova showed marginal procedural improvements over the first round on 3 June, concluded an international election observation mission deployed by...
OSCE Chairman welcomes arrest of Vlastimir Djordjevic, war crimes indictee
Publishing date: 18 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Montenegro, OSCE Mission to Serbia
MADRID, 18 June 2007- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, welcomed today the arrest of war crimes indictee Vlastimir Djordjevic in Montenegro...
OSCE Mission calls for speedy end to water supply difficulties in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict
Publishing date: 18 June 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
TBILISI, 18 June 2007- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Georgia, Ambassador Roy Reeve, called today for the sides in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict to meet to resolve the outstanding issues which are still interrupting water supply...
Moldova OSCE Mission Head condemns forced closure of Corjova polling station
Publishing date: 18 June 2007
CHISINAU, 18 June 2007- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Louis O'Neill, said today the closure of a polling station during the Moldovan local elections by Transdniestrian law enforcement bodies was unacceptable...