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OSCE Presence and Albanian Interior Ministry organize meeting on voter list reform
Publishing date: 1 February 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
TIRANA, 1 February 2006- Reform of voter list compilation was the focus of a roundtable organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania and the Albanian Interior Ministry. Participants found that a decentralized model of preparing voter lists...
OSCE organizes meeting in Almaty to discuss Central Asia migration issues
Publishing date: 31 January 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities, Good governance
ALMATY, 31 January 2006- Migration issues in Central Asia are the focus of a two-day OSCE regional workshop which opened today in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE economic and environmental activities and...
OSCE Skopje Mission supports first aid training course for border police
Publishing date: 30 January 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 30 January 2006- Improving the first aid skills of border police officers is the aim of a three-week training course which starts today at the Military Hospital in Skopje. Officers from each of country's 30 border police stations...
OSCE and Yad Vashem publish guidelines for teachers to commemorate Holocaust victims
Publishing date: 27 January 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
BRUSSELS/JERUSALEM, 27 January 2006- Marking the first international Day for Holocaust remembrance, Yad Vashem and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights have published guidelines for educators on commemoration for Holocaust...
Chairman says all sides in southern Caucasus showing will for solution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Publishing date: 26 January 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
MOSCOW, 26 January 2006- Concluding his first visit to the southern Caucasus, OSCE Chairman-in-Office Karel De Gucht held discussions in Baku with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and the representative...
ODIHR starts observation for Ukrainian parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 25 January 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW/KYIV, 25 January 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has established an election observation mission for the 26 March parliamentary elections in Ukraine. This follows an invitation from the Ukrainian authorities...
Chairman says OSCE playing role of honest broker in southern Caucasus
Publishing date: 25 January 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
YEREVAN, 25 January 2006- On the first leg of his visit to the southern Caucasus, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, held discussions with Armenian President Robert Kocharian, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, and...