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OSCE supports new consulting centres for rural entrepreneurs, farmers and labour migrants in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 27 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 27 October 2006- Three OSCE-supported centres,- on agriculture business consulting and legal advice for small businesses, and information for potential labour migrants,- opened in the Khatlon province of Tajikistan this week...
Finnish parliamentarian to lead OSCE short-term election observation mission during Tajikistan election
Publishing date: 26 October 2006
COPENHAGEN, 26 October 2006- Kimmo Kiljunen, a Finnish Member of Parliament, has been appointed to lead the OSCE short-term election observation mission to the Presidential election in Tajikistan on 6 November....
OSCE media watchdog presents report on anomalies in accrediting journalists
Publishing date: 25 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 25 October 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, presented a special report today on the administrative problems journalists have recently faced in several countries of the OSCE region. The paper...
Joint statement by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs
Publishing date: 25 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
PARIS, 24 October 2006- The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Paris on 24 October at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the aegis of the three Minsk Group Co-chairmen...
Brussels international conference focuses on energy security in OSCE region
Publishing date: 25 October 2006
BRUSSELS, 25 October 2006- Putting the global energy economy on a secure and sustainable path of development will require renewed efforts from governments and international organizations. This was the opening message at a high-level conference...
OSCE election analysts to follow US mid-term elections
Publishing date: 24 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WASHINGTON, 24 October 2006- The OSCE's election observation body, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, has deployed an Election Assessment Mission for the 7 November mid-term congressional elections in the United States...
Georgia, Kosovo, gender issues and Secretary General focus of OSCE Magazine
Publishing date: 24 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 24 October 2006- An account of how the OSCE Belgian Chairmanship brokered an urgently needed solution in Georgia after four Russian officers were taken into custody is the lead item in the October issue of the OSCE Magazine, now available...