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OSCE Ambassadors call for dialogue and negotiations in Georgia's conflict zones
Publishing date: 28 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Economic activities, Conflict prevention and resolution
TBILISI, 28 July 2006- OSCE Permanent Council Chairman, Belgian Ambassador Bertrand de Crombrugghe, today called on the sides in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict to resume constructive dialogue...
OSCE Centre organizes ecological summer camp for young Tajiks
Publishing date: 27 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Environmental activities, Education, Youth
KAYRAKKUM, 27 July 2006- Young Tajik environmental activists gathered in Kayrakkum today for the opening of an ecological summer camp, organized by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe. During the 10-day camp, the 60 participants will work together...
OSCE Osh Field Office project spotlights damage to natural resources in southern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 27 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities
OSH, 27 July 2006- A regional roundtable to focus the attention of key government officials and local leaders on the misuse of pastures and forests in southern Kyrgyzstan and to develop concrete mechanisms to respond to this growing problem, concluded...
Armenian media situation improved, but more diversity needed, OSCE media watchdog says in new report
Publishing date: 26 July 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, 26 July 2006- Armenia has made significant progress in improving media legislation, but media pluralism remains limited to the independent, but financially weak, print media, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti...
OSCE helps Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan find ways to share water resources
Publishing date: 26 July 2006
Content type: Press release
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, 26 July 2006- The first meeting of the recently formed Chu-Talas Rivers Commission, set up to better manage water resources in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, was held today in Issyk-Kul...
Economic information centre to promote investment in southern Kyrgzystan
Publishing date: 25 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Economic activities
OSH, 26 July 2006- To help three provinces in southern Kyrgyzstan attract foreign and domestic investors, a new Economic Information Dissemination Centre has opened its doors today, established by the OSCE's Osh Field Office. The new centre, which...
New OSCE Moldovan Mission Head commends destruction of offensive weaponry- urges Transdniestria to copy
Publishing date: 25 July 2006
CHISINAU, 25 Jul 2006- The new Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Louis O'Neill, called today on the Transdniestrian authorities to follow the latest Moldovan example and to cut its military capacity. He made his statement at Bulboaca...