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OSCE Georgia Mission expands border monitoring operation
Publishing date: 2 January 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management
TBILISI, 2 January 2002-- The OSCE Mission to Georgia today deployed a team of five international border monitors to the village of Sno, north-eastern Georgia, where a new OSCE border monitoring base has been established
OSCE Chairman-in-Office welcomes abolition of exit visas in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 28 December 2001
BUCHAREST, 28 December 2001- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, welcomes the decision taken by the President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, to abolish the exit visa requirement...
International conference agrees on need to abolish death penalty in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 21 December 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
DUSHANBE, 21 December 2001- An International Conference on the Death Penalty, co-organized by the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan on 20 and 21 December, ended today in Dushanbe with an appeal by the participants to the President of Tajikistan...
OSCE Georgia Mission and European Commission sign assistance agreement
Publishing date: 21 December 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
TBILISI, 21 December 2001- Yesterday, the OSCE Mission to Georgia and the European Commission (EC) signed a Grant Agreement of 210,000 euros in Brussels. The grant is a European Union contribution for the strengthening...
OSCE monitors accompany redeployment of Macedonian multi-ethnic police
Publishing date: 20 December 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 20 December 2001-- Ethnically mixed police teams, accompanied by monitors of the OSCE and the European Union, yesterday redeployed to another five villages located in the previous conflict area around the town of Tetovo...
Ambassador Wieck completes term in office
Publishing date: 20 December 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization
MINSK, 20 December 2001-- After four years as Head of the OSCE Advisory and Monitoring Group in Belarus (AMG), Ambassador Hans-Georg Wieck will complete his assignment on 31 December 2001...
Round table on state registration of legal entities held in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 19 December 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization, Gender equality
DUSHANBE, 19 December 2001- A one-day round table to discuss the state registration of legal entities was co-organized by the OSCE in Tajikistan...