News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre trains Uzbek border guards and custom officials on intercepting illegal guns, spotting false travel documents
Publishing date: 25 October 2004
TASHKENT, 25 October 2004- A training course aimed at improving Uzbekistan's border management, focusing on the problems of arms smuggling and the use of fake travel documents, was launched today by the OSCE Centre in Tashkent. This four-week...
OSCE Croatia mission condemns bomb attack on party office in Vukovar, warns against rash reactions
Publishing date: 22 October 2004
ZAGREB, 22 October 2004- Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Peter Semneby, today condemned a recent bomb attack on an office of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) in Vukovar. The incident occurred on Wednesday in Vukovar's Borovo Naselje district...
Moldovan public broadcasting lacks alternative voices, says OSCE Media Freedom Representative
Publishing date: 22 October 2004
VIENNA, 22 October 2004- "There is too much government and insufficient alternative opinion on Moldova's public broadcaster", the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said concluding a fact-finding visit to Moldova. The...
OSCE Presence welcomes new laws on Central Election Commission and voter registration in Albania
Publishing date: 22 October 2004
TIRANA, 22 October 2004- The OSCE Presence in Albania welcomes the passage by the Albanian Assembly yesterday of the law on changing the Electoral Code with regard to the composition of the Central Election Commission...
OSCE Office in Baku issues statement on conclusion of opposition leaders trial
Publishing date: 22 October 2004
BAKU, 22 October 2004- The Office in Baku issued the following statement today: "The OSCE Office in Baku welcomes the end of the trials of the final group of defendants, arraigned on charges arising out of civil disturbances after the Presidential...
OSCE Chairman calls on Albanian parties to work together on electoral reform
Publishing date: 22 October 2004
TIRANA, 22 October 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, called on Albania's political parties to work together on important electoral reforms and pledged the support of the OSCE in this process...
OSCE Chairman urges Serbia and Montenegro to speed up reform
Publishing date: 21 October 2004
BELGRADE/PODGORICA, 21 October 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, encouraged the leaders of Serbia and Montenegro to press ahead with reforms related to their OSCE commitments to help achieve their objective...