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OSCE Chairman expresses condolences following crash of Sibir Airlines flight
Publishing date: 10 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
BRUSSELS, 10 July 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today extended his sincere condolences to the Russian Government and families of the passengers who died in Sunday's plane crash in Irkutsk...
OSCE Office in Yerevan helps organize training on alternative sentencing
Publishing date: 10 July 2006
YEREVAN, 10 July 2006- A training course for personnel of the Armenian Justice Ministry's division for the execution of alternative punishment began today with support from the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the Office for Democratic Institutions and...
OSCE Centre promotes discussion on democratic principles of the electoral process in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 7 July 2006
VARZOB, Tajikistan, 7 July 2006- Democratic principles of electoral processes were discussed today at a meeting organized by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe in co-operation with the National Association of Political Scientists of Tajikistan. Participants...
Goran Lennmarker elected President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Publishing date: 7 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
BRUSSELS, 7 July 2006- At the close of its fifteenth Annual Session, held from 3 to 7 July 2006, the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE elected Goran Lennmarker of Sweden as its new President, to serve a one-year term. Over 200 parliamentarians..
Parliamentary elections largely met international standards, but tainted by isolated irregularities, say observers in Skopje
Publishing date: 6 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
SKOPJE, 6 July 2006- Parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia largely met international standards for democratic elections, but violence and intimidation cast a shadow over the campaign, concluded...
Statement by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
Publishing date: 6 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
MOSCOW/WASHINGTON/PARIS, 3 July 2006- Taking into account recent speculation about the basic principles for a peaceful settlement of the NK conflict proposed to both parties by the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, it is necessary to make the following...
OSCE Chairman welcomes large compliance of Skopje vote with international standards but regrets isolated irregularities
Publishing date: 6 July 2006
BRUSSELS, 6 July 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office today welcomed the fact that the parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia largely met international election norms but regretted reported isolated irregularities...