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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Secretary General welcomes agreement with European Commission on policing operation
Publishing date: 28 February 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Policing
VIENNA, 28 February 2002- The OSCE Secretary General, Jan Kubis, today informed the Organization's 55-nation Permanent Council that the first Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the OSCE and the European Commission...
OSCE/ODIHR to send expanded observation mission to monitor Macedonian elections
Publishing date: 28 February 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
SKOPJE, 28 February 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will send an expanded observation mission to monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...
OSCE High Commissioner praises adoption of "minority law" in Yugoslavia
Publishing date: 28 February 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues, Roma and Sinti
THE HAGUE, 28 February- OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Rolf Ekeus today praised the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for adopting the Law on the Protection of National Minorities. In a letter to the Minister of...
OSCE brings together partners in fight against human trafficking in Ukraine
Publishing date: 28 February 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
KYIV, 28 February 2002- Two training seminars organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and international partners will focus on fighting trafficking in human beings in the Ukraine...
OSCE Presence in Albania and ODIHR urge implementation of election recommendations
Publishing date: 27 February 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization, Elections
TIRANA, 27 February 2002- Two election experts from the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) visited Tirana from 18 to 26 February to support the OSCE Presence there in its efforts to follow-up on recommendations...
OSCE/ODIHR opens election observation mission in Ukraine
Publishing date: 26 February 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
KYIV, 26 February 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established an Election Observation Mission in Ukraine to monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for 31 March...
Byte-ing the bullet: OSCE offers computers in exchange for weapons in Georgia
Publishing date: 26 February 2002
TBILISI, 26 February 2002- The OSCE Mission to Georgia today handed over three computers to a secondary school where parents had organized the voluntary hand-over of small arms, in response to a weapons collection campaign...