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Personal Representative condemns violence in Kosovo
Publishing date: 31 December 1997
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Personal Representatives of the Chairperson-in-Office
What we do: Human rights
THE HAGUE, 31 December 1997--The brutal way in which the police dispersed a peaceful student demonstration in Kosovo yesterday gives rise to deep concern.
Arms reduction period ends for former warring Yugoslav republics
Publishing date: 21 November 1997
Content type: Press release
VIENNA, 21 November 1997-- The Parties to the Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control have significantly reduced the level of their arms holdings...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office to appoint Gonzalez as Personal Representative for Serbia
Publishing date: 19 September 1997
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization
COPENHAGEN, 19 September 1997-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE has today informed the authorities in Belgrade that he intends to appoint Mr. Felipe Gonzalez as his Personal Representative for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for a period not exceed
OSCE decides to establish an Advisory and Monitoring Group in Belarus
Publishing date: 18 September 1997
VIENNA, 18 September 1997--The OSCE Permanent Council decided to establish an OSCE Advisory and Monitoring Group in Belarus. According to its mandate, the Advisory and Monitoring Group will assist the Belarusian authorities in promoting democratic instit
OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Permanent Council issue joint declaration on elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 11 September 1997
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
VIENNA, 11 September 1997-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen, and the...
Vranitzky to meet Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano in Vienna
Publishing date: 8 September 1997
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Democratization
VIENNA, 8 September 1997-- Prime Minister Fatos Nano of Albania will travel to Vienna on 9-10 September to meet with the OSCE Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office for Albania, Dr....
Chairman-in-Office issues statement on observation of presidential elections in the Republic of Montenegro
Publishing date: 22 August 1997
COPENHAGEN, 22 August 1997-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen, issued the following statement in Copenhagen today on the OSCE observation of the upcoming elections in the Republic of Montenegro: