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In Montenegro 120 prison officers graduate from OSCE training course
Publishing date: 5 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
PODGORICA, 5 May 2004- 120 officers of the Montenegrin Prison Service graduated today from a special two-week, OSCE-sponsored training course, focussing on the issue of drug abuse and human rights...
OSCE Chairman urges Batumi to resume negotiations with Georgian leadership
Publishing date: 5 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
WASHINGTON, D.C., 5 May 2004- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, has expressed his deepest concern over the recent developments in Ajara. He stressed the importance of maintaining the territorial integrity and national...
OSCE launches Central Asian Youth Network
Publishing date: 30 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization
TASHKENT, 30 April 2004- More than 50 senior students and 15 of their supervisors from Central Asia will gather on 5 May in Uzbekistan to attend a research seminar marking the successful start of the newly-established Central Asian Youth Network...
OSCE Mission welcomes staging of World Press Freedom Day in Belgrade
Publishing date: 30 April 2004
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 29 April 2004- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari, welcomed the staging of the regional World Press Freedom Day 2004 by UNESCO in Belgrade on 2 and 3 May...
World Press Freedom Day will be observed in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 30 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
TASHKENT, 30 April 2004- World Press Freedom Day will be marked in Tashkent on 3 May by a national media conference which will discuss the situation of the media in Uzbekistan. Organized by the OSCE Centre in Tashkent, the UN Office, the Konrad...
OSCE Mission assists in handover of weapons and munitions in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict
Publishing date: 30 April 2004
TBILISI, 30 April 2004- Engineers of the Joint Peacekeeping Force carried out on Thursday the destruction of weapons and munitions collected under the OSCE Mission to Georgia Rapid Reaction programme in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict.
International representatives in Skopje praise conduct of election, express concern over irregularities
Publishing date: 30 April 2004
SKOPJE, 30 April 2004- Representatives of international organizations based in Skopje have commended the peaceful way the second round of presidential election was held on Wednesday. A joint statement the Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission...