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Police chiefs from OSCE countries agree to enhance co-operation to fight organized crime
Publishing date: 24 November 2006
BRUSSELS, 24 November, 2006- At a Conference organized today at the initiative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, police chiefs from more than 50 OSCE countries agreed to intensify international...
Kazakhstani journalists learn about land degradation and water management in OSCE Centre course
Publishing date: 24 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 24 November 2006- Environmental security issues such as land degradation and water management was the focus of a week-long training course for Kazakhstani journalists that ended today...
OSCE Office condemns closure of private TV broadcaster in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 24 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development
BAKU, 24 November 2006- The OSCE Office in Baku today expressed concern and surprise at the closure of Azerbaijan's first private TV and radio broadcaster, ANS...
OSCE promotes public access to government information in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 24 November 2006
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development
ALMATY, 24 November 2006- Improving public access to government information at the regional level by increasing transparency and strengthening relations between the authorities and the media is the main topic of an OSCE seminar that opened today...
Ribnitsa authorities must return confiscated school building, says OSCE Mission Head
Publishing date: 24 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
CHISINAU, 24 November 2006- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Louis O'Neill, has urged local authorities in the Transdniestrian city of Ribnitsa to return a confiscated building to the Moldovan Latin-script school located in the city...
OSCE Field Office completes project addressing domestic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 23 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality
OSH, Kyrgyzsatn, 23 November 2006- Raising awareness of domestic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan was the aim of an eight-month OSCE project that ended today. It was implemented by the OSCE Field Office in Osh with funding from the French Government...
First OSCE election observation training course held in Central Asia
Publishing date: 23 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
BISHKEK, 23 November 2006- An OSCE training course for election observers began in Bishkek today. It was the first time such an event was held in Central Asia...