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OSCE parliamentarians and conflict prevention experts discuss parliamentary oversight of security sector
Publishing date: 25 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 25 May 2004- Over 150 participants, drawn from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, together with experts from the OSCE delegations, are meeting for two days in Vienna to focus on the question: Parliamentary Oversight of Armed Forces, and Police...
Ambassadors sign agreements worth 790,000 euros for OSCE's mine action in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 25 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 25 May 2004- Agreements to provide support worth 790,000 euros to the OSCE's first mine action in Tajikistan were signed during a visit to this Central Asian state by five ambassadors to the OSCE. The funding will be used to establish, train...
Kosovo's institutions face many human rights challenges, says report by OSCE Mission
Publishing date: 25 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
PRISTINA, 25 May 2004- A new human rights report from the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, issued today, shows that the March 17-19 violence further complicated the situation for Kosovo's smaller communities...
OSCE Office assists in prison reform in Armenia
Publishing date: 24 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization
YEREVAN, 24 May 2004- Computers and specially developed software, handed over today to the Criminal Executive Department of the Ministry of Justice by the OSCE Office in Yerevan, will help social rehabilitation programmes in Armenian prisons. The...
OSCE Mission and Serbian Justice Ministry develop joint strategy to reform judiciary
Publishing date: 21 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 21 May 2004- A strategic partnership for democratic reforms of the Serbian judiciary was sealed today between Serbia's Ministry for Justice and the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro...
OSCE Office assists in training of Uzbek customs officers
Publishing date: 21 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
TASHKENT, 21 May 2004- A ten-day training course for a group of Uzbek customs officers with Austrian Customs Officials concluded today. It was conducted at several border crossing-points with Slovenia and Italy and at a border-crossing point between...
OSCE Mission to Croatia concerned about attack on house of Serb returnee
Publishing date: 20 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: National minority issues
ZAGREB, 20 May 2004- The OSCE Mission to Croatia expressed concern on Thursday at reports of an arson attack against the house of an elderly Serb returnee in a village near Okucani, in Croatia's Western Slavonia region. The 81-year old man had just...