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OSCE/ODIHR to observe municipal elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 2 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 2 September 2004- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has established an Election Observation Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina to observe municipal elections scheduled for 2 October, the first polls fully funded...
OSCE/ODIHR begins election observation in Belarus
Publishing date: 2 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW/MINSK, 2 September 2004- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has deployed an Election Observation Mission for the parliamentary elections in Belarus on 17 October 2004. Headed by Ambassador Audrey Glover, the mission...
OSCE Chairmanship renews offer to help improve situation in Chechen Republic
Publishing date: 2 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
SOFIA, 2 September 2004- The OSCE's Bulgarian Chairmanship has again expressed its willingness to co-operate with the Russian Federation in improving the situation in the Chechen Republic. Ambassador Ivan Naydenov...
Kosovo municipalities will have human rights experts, says OSCE Mission
Publishing date: 2 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
PRISTINA, 2 September 2004- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the Association of Kosovo Municipalities announced today that human rights experts will be placed in municipal administrations, following, a successful completion of a pilot phase in...
OSCE Mission calls for transparency in selection of new Broadcasting Council in Serbia
Publishing date: 2 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 2 September 2004- Acknowledging efforts undertaken by the Serbian government to re-activate the work of the Republican Broadcasting Agency Council, the Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Maurizio Massari, said it was important...
OSCE Centre helps Tajik newspaper begin publishing again after 15 years
Publishing date: 2 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Media freedom and development
KULYAB, 2 September 2004- A respected, traditional newspaper in southern Tajikistan was revived today after 15 years with assistance from the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe. The weekly Kulyabskaya Pravda was presented by the OSCE's Kulyab Field Office at an...
OSCE Chairman deplores hostage taking in Russia
Publishing date: 1 September 2004
SOFIA, 1 September 2004- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Passy, expressed outrage over the seizure by terrorists of a school in Beslan in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, where children and adults are being held hostage...