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OSCE PA Working Group Chair visits Minsk
Publishing date: 1 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Democratization
MINSK, 1 November 2003- The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Working Group on Belarus, Ms. Uta Zapf (Germany), visited Minsk from 30 October- 1 November. This visit was organized with the assistance of the OSCE Office in Minsk...
OSCE Kosovo Mission welcomes new leadership for local election operations body
Publishing date: 30 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 30 October 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo today welcomed the approval by the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Adnan Merovci and Bogoljub Staletovic as chief executive officer and his deputy, respectively, of its permanent Secretariat...
Expert workshop on alternative service organized in Armenia
Publishing date: 30 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization
YEREVAN, 30 October 2003- A draft law on alternative service was discussed during a workshop in Armenia's National Assembly on 28 and 29 October. The event was co-organized by the National Assembly, the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the Council of Europe...
OSCE Office seriously concerned over continued governmental pressure on NGOs in Belarus
Publishing date: 30 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
MINSK, 29 October 2003- Ambassador Eberhard Heyken, the Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk, expressed today his serious concern over the continued governmental pressure on non-governmental organizations in Belarus...
OSCE/ODIHR deploys observers to monitor parliamentary elections in Croatia
Publishing date: 29 October 2003
ZAGREB, 29 October 2003- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has opened an Election Observation Mission to monitor the elections to the Croatian parliament (Sabor) scheduled for 23 November, with deployment of 19...
OSCE co-ordinates sharing of ballot boxes between Armenian and Georgian elections
Publishing date: 29 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed), OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Elections
YEREVAN/TBILISI, 29 October 2003- Regional co-ordination between two OSCE missions has led to the signing of an agreement between Armenia's Central Electoral Commission and its counterpart in Georgia, covering the loan of 1,000 of Armenia's...
President Bruce George to lead OSCE Observation of Georgian Elections
Publishing date: 29 October 2003
COPENHAGEN, 29 October 2003- The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, Bruce George, will arrive in Tbilisi on Thursday to lead the OSCE Observers for the Parliamentary Elections in Georgia, which will take place on Sunday 2 November...