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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...
OSCE Mission encourages BiH entity on new conscientious objection instruction
Publishing date: 28 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
SARAJEVO, 28 October 2003- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina is encouraging the Federation BiH Minister of Defence to proceed rapidly with the implementation of a new instruction on conscientious objectors. Miroslav Nikolic, the...
OSCE Presence delivers draft property law to Albanian Assembly Speaker
Publishing date: 27 October 2003
TIRANA, 27 October 2003- The OSCE Presence in Albania delivered the final draft law on property to the Speaker of the Albanian Assembly, Servet Pellumbi, today...