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Friends of Albania meeting in Vienna focuses on elections and reform
Publishing date: 28 February 2000
VIENNA, 28 February 2000-- At today's Friends of Albania (FOA) meeting in Vienna, jointly chaired by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in...
OSCE calls for charges against Babitsky to be dropped
Publishing date: 29 February 2000
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, 29 February 2000-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomes the news from Russia that Andrei Babitsky, the Radio Liberty correspondent in...
Macedonian Women's Lobby becomes first lobby group
Publishing date: 6 March 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Gender equality
SKOPJE, 6 March 2000-- Under the auspices of the Gender Task Force of the Stability Pact Working Table I, and upon the initiative of the Macedonian National Gender Task...
OSCE/ODIHR establishes Election Observation Mission
Publishing date: 9 March 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Elections
TBILISI, 9 March 2000-- Following an invitation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, the Organization for Security and Co-operation...
News Conference: civil registration and election preparations
Publishing date: 10 March 2000
PRISTINA, 10 March 2000-- UNMIK/OSCE will be holding a news conference on Monday, to announce details about civil registration in Kosovo, as well as giving information about...
Kosovo NGO Council to be established
Publishing date: 10 March 2000
PRISTINA, 10 March 2000-- The first meeting of registered non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Kosovo is taking place this weekend, with the aid of the OSCE. The meeting will establish the NGO...
OSCE sponsors journalists' code of conduct conference
Publishing date: 10 March 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 10 March 2000-- As part of its continued efforts to develop a professional, democratic media, the OSCE is organizing a two-day conference on the \"Rights and...
Statement by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 15 March 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Elections
VIENNA, 15 March 2000-- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, welcomes the peaceful and well-organized...
President Helle Degn will lead the OSCE Observation Mission for the Russian Presidential Elections
Publishing date: 16 March 2000
COPENHAGEN, 16 March 2000-- President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Mrs. Helle Degn, will arrive in Moscow on Wednesday 22 March...
Statement by Chairman of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly ad hoc Working Group on Belarus
Publishing date: 23 March 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
THE HAGUE, 23 March 2000-- The Chairman of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly ad hoc Working Group on Belarus, Mr. Adrian Severin (MP, Romania),...