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Multi-lingual website for Out of Kosovo By-Mail voter registration
Publishing date: 24 June 2002
PRISTINA, 24 June 2002- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo has launched a special website for all potential voters residing outside of Kosovo, to give people the opportunity to register and participate as a voter in the 26 October municipal elections...
Deadline approaches for political entity certification in Kosovo
Publishing date: 24 June 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Elections, National minority issues
PRISTINA, 24 June 2002- The first deadline is fast approaching for Kosovo's political parties, coalitions, citizens' initiatives and independent candidates to ensure their participation in the municipal elections on 26 October. Political...
OSCE Media Representative criticizes list of banned authors in Belarus
Publishing date: 20 June 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 20 June 2002- In a report to the OSCE Permanent Council, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today strongly criticized the recent statement made by a Presidential Administration official in Belarus...
Yugoslav foreign minister welcomes OSCE contribution to reform in FRY
Publishing date: 20 June 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Serbia
VIENNA, 20 June 2002- The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Goran Svilanovic, today welcomed the OSCE's contribution to the process of reform and democratisation in his country. Addressing the Permanent Council...
International Conference to focus on Islam and national security in Central Asia
Publishing date: 20 June 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Countering terrorism
ALMATY, 20 June 2002- A two-day international conference will be held in Kazakhstan next week to examine the recent growth in importance of "the Islamic factor" in the social and political life of the Central Asian countries.
OSCE welcomes signing of municipal electoral law in Kosovo
Publishing date: 18 June 2002
PRISTINA, 18 June 2002- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo welcomes the signing of the regulation on municipal elections by the United Nations Special Representative, Michael Steiner, which lays out the basic provisions governing the elections...
Secretary General Kubis urges Tajikistan to continue reforms
Publishing date: 18 June 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
DUSHANBE, 18 June 2002- Speaking at the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the signing of the peace accords in Tajikistan, the OSCE Secretary General, Jan Kubis, today urged the Tajik authorities "to continue with determination the reform process"...