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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Largest all-European human rights conference opens
Publishing date: 17 October 2000
Content type: Press release
WARSAW, 17 October 2000- Government representatives from 54 OSCE participating States, human rights experts, and more than 150 international and non-governmental organizations gathered today in Warsaw...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office welcomes the release of the British and Canadian detainees in Belgrade
Publishing date: 7 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Policing
VIENNA, 7 October 2000- The Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner has expressed her relief about the release of the three foreigners detained in Belgrade, two British members of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office dismayed by further detention of British and Canadian citizens in FRY
Publishing date: 30 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Policing
VIENNA, 30 September 2000- The OSCE Chairperson in Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner has expressed her dismay that the authorities in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia have once again extended the detention of two British...
OSCE Permanent Council calls on FRY to release detainees
Publishing date: 7 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Policing
VIENNA, 7 September 2000- The 54-member OSCE Permanent Council called on the authorities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) today to speed up legal procedures and to rapidly release from detention in Belgrade the two British OMIK members...
OSCE CiO statement on the British and Canadian citizens detained in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Publishing date: 18 August 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Policing
VIENNA, 18 August 2000- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, welcomes the fact that the two British and two Canadian citizens...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office welcomes the acquittal of opposition politician in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 9 August 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections
VIENNA, 9 August 2000- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner welcomes the acquittal by the Bishkek Military Court of Mr. Felix Kulov...
OSCE calls on Yugoslav authorities to grant access to detained OSCE staff
Publishing date: 4 August 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Policing
VIENNA, 4 August 2000- The OSCE Chairmanship today called the Chargé d\'Affaires a.i. of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Vienna to the Austrian Foreign Ministry...