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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission welcomes Croatia's refugee return policy, calls for further action
Publishing date: 6 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ZAGREB, 6 June 2004- A report issued by the OSCE Mission to Croatia today welcomed the Croatian Government's commitment on refugee return and reconciliation and calls for further action to put this policy into practice. The Head of the OSCE Mission to...
OSCE Mission welcomes signing of agreement on inter-ethnic tolerance and co-operation in Belgrade
Publishing date: 6 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
BELGRADE, 6 July 2004- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro welcomed today's signing in Belgrade of an agreement on inter-ethnic tolerance and co-operation by more than 40 cities and non-governmental organizations from south-eastern Europe...
OSCE Office concerned over assault on prominent Belarusian opposition figure
Publishing date: 6 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections
MINSK, 6 July 2004- The Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk, Ambassador Eberhard Heyken, expressed great concern about last week's assault on opposition politician General Valery Frolov. "This incident must be condemned," he said today in the Belarusian...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office calls for transformation of Organization
Publishing date: 6 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
EDINBURGH, 6 July 2004- OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy called on Monday for substantial reform of the 55-nation security organization, saying it needed to reassess its political priorities, and expressed hope that OSCE heads of state...
OSCE Centre to hold training course for law faculty staff in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 5 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization
TASHKENT, 5 July 2004- The OSCE Centre in Tashkent will on Tuesday begin a five-day training course on interactive teaching methods for academic staff members working in Uzbekistan's law faculties...
OSCE Presence welcomes Albanian President's decision to return property law to Parliament
Publishing date: 5 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
TIRANA, 5 July 2004- The OSCE Presence in Albania welcomes the decision of the country's President, reached after careful consultation and consideration, to return to the Albanian Assembly a law on the Restitution and Compensation of Property...
OSCE/ODIHR assists Kazakhstan's Judicial Academy in launching magistrate programme
Publishing date: 2 July 2004
Content type: Press release
ALMATY/WARSAW, 2 July 2004- A workshop in Almaty from 5 to 9 July will help develop a policy strategy for the Judicial Academy, a recently established training institution for future and sitting judges under the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan. It is...