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OSCE/ODIHR Director concludes assessment visit ahead of Ukrainian parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 5 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Elections
KYIV, 5 March 2002- The Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador Gerard Stoudmann, today concluded a two-day assessment visit to Kyiv ahead of the Ukrainian parliamentary elections...
Focus placed on rights of Ukrainian military personnel at recent seminar
Publishing date: 5 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
KYIV, 5 March 2002- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator, together with representatives of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and the International Society for Human Rights (Ukrainian section), recently hosted a seminar meant to support
Chairman-in-Office discusses Nagorno-Karabakh prospects during visit to Armenia
Publishing date: 5 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
YEREVAN, 5 March 2002- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portugal's Foreign Minister, Dr. Jaime Gama, visited Yerevan on 4 and 5 March at the start of his planned four-day visit to the South Caucasus, which will also include trips to...
OSCE reiterates the call for affordable armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 4 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Arms control, Democratization
BANJA LUKA, 4 March 2002- At a meeting in Banja Luka today the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina conveyed to the Republika Srpska political leadership the urgent need to bring its military expenditure in line with approved budgets...
OSCE Head of Mission welcomes formation of government in Kosovo
Publishing date: 4 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections, National minority issues
PRISTINA, 4 March 2002- The Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Pascal Fieschi, has welcomed the formation of a Government in Kosovo. Political deadlock had been preventing this important development since the elections for...
OSCE organizes study visits to Spain and UK for Serbian and Montenegrin MPs
Publishing date: 4 March 2002
BELGRADE, 4 March 2002- The OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is organizing this week visits of Parliamentary delegations to Spain and the UK as part of its programme aimed at improving the parliamentary dimension and...
OSCE expresses concern on "parliamentary elections" in Abkhazia, Georgia
Publishing date: 1 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
LISBON, 1 March 2002- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Portugal's Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, expressed his deep concern at the intention of the Abkhaz leadership to conduct...