News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE media watchdog, Finnish OSCE Chairmanship host forum on challenges to media freedom
Publishing date: 29 February 2008
VIENNA, 29 February 2008- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklós Haraszti, and Finnish Secretary of State Pertti Torstila, called on participating States to comply with their OSCE media commitments at a roundtable discussion today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports co-operation between Ombudsman offices and local authorities
Publishing date: 29 February 2008
SKOPJE, 29 Feb 2008- A regional roundtable discussion supported by the OSCE Mission to further enhance co-operation between the Ombudsman Institution and local authorities started today in Bitola...
OSCE Centre expands waste management in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 29 February 2008
BISHKEK, 29 February 2008- The OSCE Centre in Bishkek presented a new waste management project in the Kyrgyz city of Naryn today...
OSCE elections body deploys observation mission to Montenegro
Publishing date: 28 February 2008
WARSAW/PODGORICA, 28 February 2008- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights is deploying an election observation mission for the 6 April presidential election in Montenegro, its first since independence...
OSCE Chairman encourages swift reforms in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 28 February 2008
BAKU, 28 February 2008- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, today called on Azerbaijani authorities to accelerate the democratic reform process, saying the Organization was ready to continue support toward this goal...
Reinforcing co-operation between OSCE, Council of Europe key to being effective and preventing overlap, says Slovak Foreign Minister
Publishing date: 28 February 2008
VIENNA, 28 February 2008- Promoting co-operation and avoiding duplication are challenges that the OSCE and the Council of Europe face, said the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Slovak Foreign Minister Jan Kubis, today...
Finland supports OSCE projects to promote border security and management between Tajikistan and Afghanistan
Publishing date: 27 February 2008
HELSINKI, 27 February 2008- Finland will dispatch three experts to Tajikistan to support OSCE border security and management projects in Central Asia...