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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Need for public debate in post-conflict situations
Publishing date: 25 November 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 25 November 1999-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, spoke today at the OSCE Permanent Council. In his address, Duve pointed out that freedom...
Chairman-in-Office issues statement on Belarus
Publishing date: 2 December 1999
OSLO, 2 December 1999-- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Foreign Minister Knut Vollebæk of Norway, welcomes the release of Mikhail...
OSCE parliamentarians to observe Russian Duma elections on 19 December
Publishing date: 3 December 1999
COPENHAGEN, 3 December 1999-- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe will send more than 100 observers to the...
Parliamentary Assembly head to lead observer mission for elections in Russia
Publishing date: 3 December 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Elections
OSLO, 3 December 1999-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Foreign Minister of Norway Knut Vollebaek, has designated Ms. Helle Degn, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, as his Special Representative to lead the OSCE Observation Mission to the
ODIHR sends limited mission to parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 6 December 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Elections
TASHKENT, 6 December 1999-- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR)...
Preliminary statement on re-runs of second round of presidential election in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Publishing date: 6 December 1999
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
SKOPJE, 6 December 1999-- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic...
OSCE organizes first multilateral meeting on Serb minority education
Publishing date: 7 December 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
VUKOVAR, 7 December 1999-- The first multilateral meeting on Serb minority education issues took place on 7 December 1999 in the premises of the OSCE Co-ordination Centre Vukovar.
Appeal issued to free journalist from jail in Serbia
Publishing date: 9 December 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 9 December 1999- Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, is concerned with the continued imprisonment of Nebojsa Ristic, editor of TV Soko in Sokobanja,...
OSCE/ODIHR will not deploy observation mission to Turkmenistan elections
Publishing date: 9 December 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 9 December 1999-- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR)...
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President concerned about Chechnya situation
Publishing date: 10 December 1999
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights
COPENHAGEN, 10 December 1999-- The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Mrs. Helle Degn, strongly appealed to the Russian leadership to...