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OSCE Kosovo Mission hosts training seminar on economics reporting
Publishing date: 23 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 23 April 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo has begun a four-day training course for local journalists concerned with covering economic issues. The course aims to help media look at the basic concept of how to report on economic...
OSCE Mission welcomes adoption of Serbian Public Information Act
Publishing date: 23 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 23 April 2003- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari, today warmly congratulated both the Serbian Assembly and Government for the adoption of the Public Information Act. The new act is a...
OSCE Baku Office holds workshop on business incubators and industrial parks
Publishing date: 22 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
BAKU, 22 April 2003- The OSCE has organized the first national workshop on business incubators and industrial parks in Azerbaijan, which will be held on 23 and 24 April in Baku. The concept of business incubators comprises a wide range of institutions...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities visits Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 22 April 2003
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
BISHKEK, 22 April 2003- On an official visit to Kyrgyzstan, the OSCE's High Commissioner on National Minorities, Rolf Ekeus, said that in multi-ethnic societies politics should be oriented towards integration rather than towards assimilation or...
Head of OSCE Mission to Skopje issues joint statement
Publishing date: 21 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Conflict prevention and resolution
SKOPJE, 21 April 2003- Statement of the Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitoring Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Craig Jenness, supported by the EU Special Representative Alexis Brouhns, the United States Ambassador Lawrence Butler, and NATO...
OSCE invests in Bosnia and Herzegovina's future
Publishing date: 18 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 18 April 2003- A group of 45 young people have today concluded a one-year OSCE programme geared at training them for future leadership in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The training programme, entitled "Successor Generation Initiative" (SGI)...
OSCE meeting focuses on acute danger from nuclear waste in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 17 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
BISHKEK, 17 April 2003- A three-day international scientific meeting in Kyrgyzstan aims at assessing technical problems posed by radioactive waste dumps at Mailuu-Suu in the country's south, which threaten the whole region with radioactive...