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Last certification for municipal elections in Kosovo approved
Publishing date: 30 August 2002
PRISTINA, 30 August 2002- The citizens' initiative Coalition Return (KP), has been certified to participate in the 26 October Municipality Elections in Podujeva/Podujevo. The certification was decided in the Central Election Commission's (CEC)...
New Chairman of OSCE Permanent Council assumes duties on 1 September
Publishing date: 30 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 30 August 2002- Ambassador Francisco Seixas da Costa of Portugal has been appointed new Chairman of the 55-nation OSCE Permanent Council. Assuming his new duties on 1 September, Ambassador da Costa succeeds Ambassador Joao de Lima Pimentel...
International community urges release and peaceful end to Macedonian kidnapping
Publishing date: 30 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPE, 30 August, 2002-- The following is a Joint Statement by the EU Special Representative Alain Le Roy, Ambassador Ioannis Economou, the US Ambassador Lawrence Butler, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, Craig Jenness...
OSCE condemns violent attack on journalist in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
WARSAW/VIENNA, 30 August 2002- The two OSCE institutions dealing with human rights and media freedom today jointly condemned the violent attack on Sergei Duvanov, a journalist and human rights defender who was assaulted and severely injured...
Nine municipalities complete improvement project in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 29 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 29 August 2002-- Nine municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina will receive in the coming weeks a Certificate of Recognition for having completed the OSCE Mission's Municipal Infrastructure Finance and Implementation programme...
Finnish MP Kiljunen to lead OSCE observation of Macedonian parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 29 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Elections
COPENHAGEN, 29 August 2002- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz, has appointed the Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Kimmo Kiljunen, MP (Finland), to act as his Special...
Chairman of OSCE Permanent Council condemns killing of Macedonian police officers as "cowardly act of violence"
Publishing date: 29 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Skopje
VIENNA, 29 August 2002- The Chairman of the OSCE Permanent Council today condemned in the strongest terms the killing of two Macedonian police officers on 26 August in a drive-by shooting near the town of Gostivar. "We condemn in the strongest terms...