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OSCE Skopje Mission supports municipal committees for inter-community relations
Publishing date: 28 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 28 March 2006- At a workshop held in Skopje today, some 150 participants defined the role municipal committees for inter-community relations can play in the country's mixed ethnic municipalities. They also agreed upon several concrete options...
Ukrainian elections free and fair, consolidating democratic breakthrough
Publishing date: 27 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
KYIV, 27 March 2006- The 26 March parliamentary elections in Ukraine further consolidated the breakthrough in the conduct of a democratic election process that began less than a year and a half ago. Overall, fundamental civil and political rights...
OSCE Chairman Karel De Gucht welcomes free and fair conduct of elections in Ukraine
Publishing date: 27 March 2006
BRUSSELS, 27 March 2006- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, has expressed his satisfaction over the conduct of the 26 March parliamentary elections in Ukraine...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office encourages Kazakhstan to move ahead on further political reforms
Publishing date: 27 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ASTANA, 27 March 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, has described Kazakhstan's bid for the Chairmanship of the Organization in 2009 as a challenge and an opportunity for the OSCE and for Kazakhstan. Without...
OSCE, UNHCR and EC reiterate support for implementation of Sarajevo Declaration on refugees
Publishing date: 27 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 27 March 2006- Heads of the EC Delegations, UNHCR and OSCE Missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro met in Belgrade today to discuss the implementation of the Sarajevo Ministerial Declaration on Refugee Return....
Georgian Prime Minister welcomes OSCE involvement in seeking solutions to frozen conflicts
Publishing date: 27 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
VIENNA, 27 March- Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli lauded the OSCE's involvement in initiatives aimed at achieving lasting solutions to the frozen conflicts on its territory, in a speech delivered today at a special meeting of the Organization...
International observers of Ukraine parliamentary elections to hold press conference Monday in Kyiv
Publishing date: 26 March 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
KYIV, 25 March 2006- The International Election Observation Mission deployed to monitor the Ukrainian parliamentary elections on 26 March, will announce its preliminary findings and conclusions at a press conference at 13:30 on Monday, 27 March at...