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OSCE Chairman discusses Transdniestria and post-election developments during visit to Ukraine
Publishing date: 2 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
KYIV, 2 June 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, encouraged the Ukrainian authorities today to remain actively engaged in the Transdniestrian settlement negotiations...
OSCE Centre supports arts education in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 1 June 2006
ASHGABAD, 1 June 2006- A peaceful future is the theme of paintings displayed at a one-week Children's Art Exhibition that opened today in the "Art Village" of Ashgabad on the occasion of International Child Protection Day...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports transparent dialogue among political parties
Publishing date: 1 June 2006
SKOPJE, 1 June 2006- Ambassador Carlos Pais, Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, has urged the country as a whole to ensure that the 5 July parliamentary elections fulfil international standards....
OSCE Mission to Skopje launches education decentralization project
Publishing date: 1 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Education
SKOPJE, 1 June 2006- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje today launched a brochure that features information about decentralization in education. The 20-page publication is part of a project that aims to help municipalities...
OSCE Chairman urges Transdniestrian authorities to re-engage in political dialogue with Chisinau
Publishing date: 1 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
TIRASPOL, 1 June 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today urged the Transdniestrian authorities to accept without any preconditions a proposal to renew negotiations with Chisinau within the 5+2 format...
OSCE and UN hold roundtable on prison conditions in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 1 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
DUSHANBE, 1 June 2006- How to improve conditions at detention facilities in Tajikistan was the theme of a roundtable organized by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe and the United Nations Office of Peace-building in Tajikistan...
ODIHR opens mission in Skopje to observe 5 July parliamentary polls
Publishing date: 31 May 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW/SKOPJE, 31 May 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established an Election Observation Mission in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to monitor the 5 July parliamentary elections...