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OSCE election support team arrives in Afghanistan

Publishing date: 30 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
VIENNA, 30 August 2005- The OSCE has sent an election support team to Afghanistan, which is an OSCE Partner for Co-operation, to assist with parliamentary and provincial elections...

OSCE Mission to Skopje praises completion of border handover

Publishing date: 30 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Border management
Skopje, 30 August 2005- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje today praised the Ministries of Defense and Interior on the successful transfer of border control from the military to the border police.

OSCE Centre in Ashgabad trains more Turkmen customs officials in computer skills

Publishing date: 29 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Border management
ASHGABAD, 29 August 2005- Twenty Turkmen customs officials have just completed a three-month computer course and have received certificates of completion from the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad.

OSCE Centre supports Kazakhstan's efforts to join pollution control protocol

Publishing date: 26 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ALMATY, 26 August 2005- Kazakhstan's technical and legislative capacities to accede to the Kyiv Protocol on pollutant release will be assessed at a meeting of government officials, national and international experts and civil society representatives...

OSCE releases Annual Report on 2004 activities in four official languages

Publishing date: 26 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 26 August 2005- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world's largest regional security arrangement, today released its Annual Report for 2004 in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

OSCE media freedom representative concerned over new criminal libel case involving President of Belarus

Publishing date: 22 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 22 August 2005- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, has voiced his concern over a new criminal investigation involving alleged libel of the President of Belarus in animated Internet cartoons.

OSCE Secretary General visits Kosovo, urges dialogue as way forward

Publishing date: 12 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
PRISTINA, 12 August 2005- OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut discussed the future role of the OSCE in Kosovo with the international administration, Kosovo's leaders and representatives of the Kosovo Serb community.