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OSCE will not recognize Transdniestrian independence referendum- Chairman-in-Office
Publishing date: 20 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BRUSSELS, 20 July 2006- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe will not recognize the referendum on independence called by the Supreme Soviet of the Transdniestrian region, said Chairman-in-Office Karel De Gucht...
OSCE media watchdog's office ends training seminar to improve reporting of governmental information in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 19 July 2006
Content type: Press release
BAKU, 20 July 2006- An OSCE-organized seminar aiming to improve public access to government information by strengthening relations between authorities and the media concluded today in Baku...
Montenegrin Foreign Minister welcomes broad and durable mandate for new OSCE Mission
Publishing date: 18 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Montenegro
VIENNA, 18 July, 2006- In his first address to the OSCE's Permanent Council, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro, Miodrag Vlahovic, anticipated the rapid signing of an official memorandum to support a new OSCE Mission, based in Podgorica...
OSCE Mission urges Serbian Assembly to avoid hasty adoption of amendments to broadcasting law
Publishing date: 18 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 18 July 2006- The Acting Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia today called upon the Serbian Assembly to reconsider the urgent procedure of adopting amendments to the broadcasting law and allow time for public discussion...
OSCE Centre in Dushanbe organizes summer school on international law and human rights
Publishing date: 17 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights, Education, Rule of law
VARZOB, Tajikistan, 17 July 2006- University students are learning about human rights and mechanisms to protect those rights during a summer school co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe and Tajikistan's Bureau on Human Rights and the Rule of Law...
OSCE Chairman regrets delay of JCC meeting and detention of Russian diplomats in Georgia
Publishing date: 17 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BRUSSELS, 17 July 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office De Gucht has expressed regret at the postponement of a meeting scheduled to start today of the Joint Control Commission for the resolution of the Georgian- Ossetian conflict...
OSCE and partners organize Tajik-Afghan meeting in Dushanbe on ecological co-operation
Publishing date: 17 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 17 July 2006- Designing a programme of joint action on environmental protection between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, was the aim of a meeting, initiated by the Environment and Security Initiative partners, held in Dushanbe on Friday...