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OSCE Tashkent Centre organizes training on legal and professional standards for media coverage of elections
Publishing date: 26 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
TASHKENT, 26 August 2004- As part of the preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections, the OSCE Centre in Tashkent is holding from 24 to 28 August training courses for media representatives. The aim is...
OSCE Centre in Dushanbe concerned at shutdown of private printing house by tax authorities
Publishing date: 25 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Media freedom and development
DUSHANBE, 25 August 2004- The OSCE Centre in Dushanbe noted with concern the closure of the private printing house ''Jonkhon'' by the Tax Administration of Tajikistan. This closure was a result...
OSCE experts help Tajikistan secure surplus small arms and light weapons and ammunition
Publishing date: 24 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
DUSHANBE, 24 August 2004- At the request of the Government of Tajikistan, a group of OSCE experts, assisted by a Russian, have been visiting Dushanbe from 19 to 24 August to conduct a study on the situation regarding surplus Small Arms...
OSCE Mission and Kosovo Police Service sponsor summer retreat for youth
Publishing date: 24 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
STRPCE/SHTERPCE, 23 August 2004- A four-day summer retreat bringing together some 60 local youths from different ethnic backgrounds is to be hosted by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo in co-operation with three Kosovo Police Service...
OSCE Media Representative to hold conference on media freedom on the Internet
Publishing date: 23 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA/AMSTERDAM, 23 August 2004- "Guaranteeing Media Freedom on the Internet" is the title of the 2nd Amsterdam Internet Conference to be held on 27 and 28 August 2004. It will be hosted by Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of...
OSCE Centre opens Internet café for regional journalists in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 23 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Media freedom and development
TARAZ, 23 August 2004- The first OSCE Internet Cafe for regional journalists in Kazakhstan opened today in the southern city of Taraz. A similar Internet café will soon...
OSCE Chairman expresses support for Estonian government position on wartime monument
Publishing date: 22 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
SOFIA, 22 August 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office expressed support for the Estonian government in its objections to the erection of a controversial monument commemorating Estonians who fought on the side of Nazi forces in World War Two...