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OSCE/ODIHR to follow electronic voting in Belgium
Publishing date: 5 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 5 October 2006- In response to an invitation from the Belgian Government to observe the local elections scheduled for 8 October, the OSCE/ODIHR is undertaking an expert study visit from 4 to 9 October...
International observers for municipal elections to hold press conference in Tbilisi on Friday
Publishing date: 5 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
TBILISI, 5 October 2006- International observers for the 5 October municipal elections in Georgia will hold a press conference in Tbilisi tomorrow. Ambassador Geert Ahrens...
International economic rehabilitation programme to be launched in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict
Publishing date: 5 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
TBILISI, 5 October 2006- A new international programme for economic rehabilitation of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone will be launched at an OSCE-chaired steering committee meeting in Tskhinvali tomorrow. Representatives of...
Report on Armenian penitentiary institutions presented in Yerevan
Publishing date: 5 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
YEREVAN, 5 October 2006- The results of a monitoring of Armenian prisons or detention centres in 2005, the conditions and treatment of prisoners, were presented in Yerevan today. Prepared by the Public Monitoring Group, it focuses on...
OSCE Chairman urges Georgia and Russia to resume dialogue, restore normal relations
Publishing date: 4 October 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BRUSSELS, 4 October 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today strongly urged Georgia and Russia to tone down rhetoric, abstain from further provocations and resume dialogue...
OSCE Centre, Interior Ministry organize community police days in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 4 October 2006
BISHKEK, 4 October 2006- Making sure residents get to better know community police officers working in their neighborhoods is the aim of a Police Day taking place in the northern Kyrguz town of Karakol today...
OSCE-led team starts mission to assess environmental impact of southern Caucasus fires
Publishing date: 3 October 2006
BAKU, 3 October 2006- An OSCE-led team of international experts, backed by a United Nations General Assembly resolution, began an 11-day mission today to assess the environmental impact of fires in and around Nagorno-Karabakh...