News and press releases

DUSHANBE, 1 October 2001 (OSCE)- Today, the first Tajik Legal Clinic opened its doors at the Law Faculty of the Slavonic University in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The Street Law Clinic represents the initial step in the creation of a Legal Support Center...

PRISTINA, 1 October 2001 (OSCE)-- Slow progress is being made in improving conditions for Kosovo\'s minorities, according to the latest OSCE and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) assessment on the situation of minorities...

TBLISI, 1 October 2001-- From 26 to 28 September, the OSCE co-organized a conference on drug addiction for physicians-narcologists in Chakvi (Ajar Autonomous Republic), Georgia...

VIENNA, 29 September 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Permanent Council has decided to send a further 159 international officers to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, to add to the 51 already deployed. This additional number will include a further...

VIENNA, 28 September 2001 (OSCE)-- In the aftermath of the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., that led to numerous casualties and prompted governments to prepare to combat terror, hundreds of journalists are either on their way or are already...

YEREVAN, 28 September 2001 (OSCE)-- A new book on corruption as a complex phenomenon in society has been launched by the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Armenia. The author of the publication is Stepan Tsaghikian...

VIENNA, 27 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The world public is still mourning the victims of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Many governments are already actively developing new approaches to their securit...

PRISTINA, 26 September 2001 (OSCE)-- At its first meeting yesterday, the Board of Directors of Radio-Television Kosovo (RTK), the province\'s independent public service broadcaster, elected Adem Demaci as its chairperson...

ALMATY, 10 September 2001 (OSCE)- On 19 and 20 October, an OSCE-initiated two-day conference focusing on the import and storage of radioactive waste in Kazakhstan is scheduled to take place in the country\'s capital Almaty...

PRISTINA, 25 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The first meeting of the Board of Directors of Radio-Television Kosovo (RTK), is being held today, chaired by Ambassdor Daan Everts, OSCE Head of Mission...

ZAGREB, 24 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Ambassador Bernard Poncet is hosting a meeting of the Heads of OSCE Missions and Offices in South-eastern Europe in Bezanec Castle, near Zagreb, on 24 and 25 September 2001

PRISTINA, 24 September 2001 (OSCE)-- A Kosovo Serb citizens\' initiative has been certified to take part in the 2001 Assembly Election by the Central Election Commission (CEC)...

PRISTINA, 24 September 2001 (OSCE)-- Almost 350,000 people in Kosovo and beyond had visited combined Voter Services and Registration Centres by Saturday\'s deadline...

WARSAW, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE's human rights institution, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today called for an independent investigation of the murder of the Ukrainian journalist Georgyi Gongadze...

VIENNA, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)- Coming together for a special session to discuss the fight against terrorism, the OSCE Permanent Council today expressed its concern about reports of anti-Muslim incidents and violence in several OSCE countries...

BELGRADE, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia welcomes the beginning of a campaign to include women in the training program for multi-ethnic police, which the OSCE and the Serb Ministry of Interior...

VIENNA, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, called today on all 55 OSCE participating States to work together to develop an OSCE-wide plan of action for the fight against terrorism...

BANJA LUKA, 20 September 2001 (OSCE)- Increased transparency of governmental work and improvement of the communication between government, media and citizens is the main subject of a four-day workshop that began on 17 September in Banja Luka

VIENNA, 20 September 2001 (OSCE)- In an address to the Permanent Council of the OSCE yesterday, the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Mr. Askar Akaev, expressed his profound sense of shock at the tragic events that struck the United States last week

WARSAW, 19 September 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE's human rights office today expressed concern about the recent wave of anti-Muslim incidents and violence in several OSCE countries following last week's terror attacks in the United States...

PRISTINA, 19 September 2001 (OSCE)- The voters\' list for the 2001 Kosovo Assembly Election will close this Saturday, 22 September...

YEREVAN, 18 September 2001-- The OSCE Office in Yerevan welcomes the verdict of not guilty in the case brought against Levon Markaryan in the first instance court in Armavir. Mr. Markaryan was accused under article 244...

PRISTINA, 18 September 2001 (OSCE)- The Belgrade-based non-governmental organization, Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID), has been granted observer status for the 2001 Kosovo electoral process by the province's Central Election...

WARSAW, 17 September 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE will make the fight against terrorism a top priority. In a message to the opening of the annual OSCE human rights conference, the Organization's Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana...

SKOPJE, 14 September 2001 (OSCE)-- \"The role and profile of the OSCE in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are to increase considerably\", stated Mr. Mircea Geoana, OSCE Chairman-in-Office, during his visit to Skopje today

TIRANA, 13 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens, visited yesterday the newly-appointed Albanian Minister for the Environment, Mr. Ruka.

COPENHAGEN, 13 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Adrian Severin, welcomes the support shown by the international community in condemning the terrorist attacks in the United States on Tuesday...

PRISTINA, 13 September 2001 (OSCE)- The sixteenth class of police cadets from the OSCE-run Kosovo Police Service School (KPSS) graduates this Saturday, September 15...

VIENNA, 13 September 2001 (OSCE)- The 55-nation Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) decided to declare the day of Friday 14 September a day of grief and mourning at its meeting today...

SARAJEVO, 12 September 2001-- \"We can do it!\" This is the slogan of the youth campaign that the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina has launched yesterday, inviting young people to join in for the next three months.

SKOPJE, 12 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, will address the press in Skopje tomorrow, 13 September. The OSCE Spillover Monitoring Mission to Skopje...

PRISTINA, 12 September 2001 (OSCE)- Providing a better service to voters on election day is the focus of a training programme taking place around Kosovo this week under the auspices of the OSCE...

BELGRADE, 12 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The Head of the OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Stefano Sannino, travelled to Bujanovac on 10 September to discuss with all parties involved the ongoing activity of the Governmental...

SARAJEVO, 12 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Robert M. Beecroft, has communicated to both Prime Minister Mladen Ivanic and Minister for Refugees and Displaced Persons Mico Micic his deep concern...

BUCHAREST, 11 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, learnt with consternation about the barbaric acts of terrorism perpetrated against the United States, which he condemns

VIENNA, 11 September 2001 (OSCE)-- I express my deepest outrage at today's cowardly attack against the United States of America, its people. These criminal acts of terrorism violate the basic principles of humanity and basics of democracy...

VIENNA, 10 September 2001 (OSCE)-- For 13 September 2001, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has invited journalists and editors for a one day conference on the tasks, the chances and the challenges of free journalism...

MINSK, 10 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The International Limited Election Observation Mission (ILEOM) for the September 2001 presidential election in Belarus has published today a statement of preliminary findings and conclusions...

BUCHAREST, 10 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, deplored that Belarus had failed to meet the OSCE standards in the conduct of the presidential elections held on 9 September 2001...

ALMATY, 10 September 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Centre in Almaty, in connection with the end of the trial of the former Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Akezhan Kazhegeldin, emphasizes the importance of observing international standards...

BUCHAREST, 7 September 2001 (OSCE)- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe notes with concern the public campaign launched in Belarus against the OSCE...

BUCHAREST, 6 September 2001 (OSCE)- Recognising the importance of the Roma and Sinti community, the Romanian Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Mircea Geoana, invited 300 delegates from all 55 OSCE participating States to share their experiences...

TASHKENT, 7 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Centre in Tashkent, together with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), will hold a training session on human rights report writing in Chatkal, near Tashkent.

PRISTINA, 6 September 2001 (OSCE)- The deadline for registering to vote in the forthcoming elections for a Central Assembly in Kosovo has been extended by two weeks, until 22 September, 2001.

VIENNA, 6 September 2001 (OSCE)- The Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has agreed today to an expansion of its Mission in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

MINSK, 5 September 2001 (OSCE)- An article published in today\'s edition of the state-controlled newspaper, Sovietskaya Belorussiya, tries to implicate the OSCE\'s Advisory and Monitoring Group (AMG) in Belarus in intelligence operations.

TIRANA, 4 September 2001 (OSCE)- A series of regional meetings to discuss the decentralization of the public water services will take place throughout Albania during the first week of September.

BUCHAREST, 3 September 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Mircea Geoana, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, has welcomed the decision by President Rakhmonov and the Parliament of Tajikistan to grant a general amnesty...

BUCHAREST, 3 September 2001 (OSCE)- On September 9, 2001 the citizens of Belarus elect a new President. \"The public in all countries participating in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe are following the events...

PRISTINA, 3 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The deadline for registering to take part in this year\'s elections and finding out where to vote on 17 November is fast approaching.