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OSCE Chairman stresses importance of top-level contacts between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 6 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
YEREVAN, 6 September 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, stressed the importance of continuous contacts between Azerbaijan and Armenia at the highest level in meetings with President Robert Kocharian...
OSCE Centre helps Kazakhstan prepare for ratification of pollution control protocol
Publishing date: 6 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ALMATY, 6 September 2005- A set of recommendations to assist Kazakhstan to ratify the Kyiv Protocol on pollutant release and transfer registers was offered at a meeting of government officials, experts and civil society representatives...
OSCE media watchdog concerned over situation in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 5 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 5 September 2005- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, has said he is concerned about the fate of independent media in Tajikistan because the majority of the independent papers are not published...
OSCE Chairman encouraged by signs of progress on Nagorno-Karabakh issue
Publishing date: 5 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution
BAKU, 5 September 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, said today in Baku that he was encouraged by progress on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue reached in the course of contacts between Azerbaijan and Armenia....
OSCE Mission assists Georgia in police reform
Publishing date: 2 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Policing
TBILISI, 2 September 2005- A team of OSCE police experts today met officials of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs to discuss short-term measures for the ongoing police reform in the country...
OSCE Mission Head praises construction of Holocaust Memorial Centre in Skopje
Publishing date: 2 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 2 September 2005- The Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje said that the construction of a Holocaust Memorial Centre in the capital, which began today, will serve as reminder of the country's commitment to diversity and human...
Armenian translation of the Helsinki Final Act presented by OSCE Yerevan Office and the Armenian Foreign Ministry
Publishing date: 2 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization
YEREVAN, 2 September 2005- The Armenian translation of the Helsinki Final Act, the first comprehensive document addressing European security, was introduced today to the public in Yerevan on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of its adoption...