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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Results of freedom of information consulting process announced in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 5 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Media freedom and development
SARAJEVO, 5 October 2000-- The Office of the High Representative (OHR) and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, today forwarded four...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office urges Yugoslav authorities to avoid force
Publishing date: 5 October 2000
VIENNA, 5 October 2000- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, today launched an appeal to the Yugoslav army and police not to use force against the demonstrators in Belgrade and other cities of Yugoslavia.
Political entities in Kosovo receive financial support
Publishing date: 4 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 4 October 2000-- Four donor countries have made funds available to assist those political entities contesting the forthcoming municipal elections with their campaigns.
Kosovo Elections complaints and appeals sub-commission decisions
Publishing date: 4 October 2000
PRISTINA, 4 October 2000-- At its session on 3 October 200, the Election Complaints and Appeals sub-Commission (ECAC) took several decisions and handed out its judgements to...
Final Voters List now complete in Kosovo
Publishing date: 4 October 2000
PRISTINA, 4 October 2000-- The Final Voters List is now complete for the municipal elections on 28 October in Kosovo. The list includes 863,000 voters from inside Kosovo and 38,000 outside the...
OSCE/ODIHR deploys observation mission for parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 4 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
BAKU, 4 October 2000- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) today established an Election Observation Mission for the...
Kosovo Law Centre seminar on property issues
Publishing date: 4 October 2000
PRISTINA, 4 October 2000-- A seminar entitled Legal and Economic Aspects of the Transformation of Social Property and Privatization of Companies in Kosovo will be held on Friday 6 October, from...
Serbian regime journalists turn their back on Milosevic
Publishing date: 3 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Democratization, Elections, Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 3 October 2000-- Over the past two days, hundreds of employees of state-controlled media have gone on strike protesting the Serbian government\'s refusal to recognize the results...
Out-of-Country ballots being mailed for elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 3 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 3 October 2000-- The OSCE has started mailing ballots to out-of-country voters for the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
OSCE publishes report on voter concerns in Kosovo
Publishing date: 3 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 3 October 2000-- On 28 October the people of Kosovo will have the opportunity to select their municipal leaders...
Political roundtables organized to provide outreach opportunities for political parties
Publishing date: 3 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 3 October 2000- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina is assisting in organizing more than 120 political roundtables...
Albanian local elections mark significant progress
Publishing date: 2 October 2000
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
TIRANA, 2 October 2000-- The 1 October 2000 local government elections in Albania marked significant progress towards meeting the standards for democratic elections, concluded the OSCE election observation mission...
Kosovo elections information on website
Publishing date: 2 October 2000
PRISTINA, 2 October 2000-- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo has compiled a comprehensive internet guide to the elections...
OSCE Parliamentary team visits Moldova
Publishing date: 2 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Democratization
CHISINAU, 1 October 2000-- The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's "Moldova Team" visited Moldova from 28 September to 1 October...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office seeks political and economic reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 2 October 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Elections
SARAJEVO, 2 October 2000- On a one-day visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Chairper-son-in-Office of the OSCE, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, urged law-makers and politicians of the country to implement much needed reforms...
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 completes election observation in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Publishing date: 29 September 2000
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
SKOPJE, 29 September 2000- The OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission for the Municipal Elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia announces that it will close its office in Skopje on Saturday, 30 September 2000.
Rules on Kosovo polling stations approved
Publishing date: 29 September 2000
PRISTINA, 29 September 2000-- As the 28 October municipal elections approach, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo wanted to call attention to the recently adopted Central Election Commission Rule 2000/13...
Albanian municipal elections a vital issue for every citizen
Publishing date: 29 September 2000
TIRANA, 29 September 2000-- The following statement on the upcoming 1 October municipal elections was released today by the OSCE Presence in Albania...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office calls for international verification of election results in FRY
Publishing date: 29 September 2000
VIENNA, 29 September 2000- The Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, citing the substantial differences between the figures published by the Federal Election Commission and the findings of non partisan...
Kosovo television presenters attend training in Austria
Publishing date: 28 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 28 September 2000-- Six television presenters from Kosovo are undergoing intensive training in Austria this week as part of a joint initiative organised by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF),...
Conference looks at regional approach for resolving conflicts in Caucasus
Publishing date: 28 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
YEREVAN, 28 September 2000-- An international conference with the theme \"Prospects for Regional and Transregional Co-operation and the Resolution of Conflicts\" was held in Yerevan, 27-28 September, 2000.
Yugoslav election results must be published in detail
Publishing date: 27 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 26 September 2000-- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) calls for the urgent publication of all polling station results for the 24 September elections in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...
First fines issued for Kosovo electoral code violations
Publishing date: 27 September 2000
PRISTINA, 27 September 2000-- The Kosovo Election Complaints and Appeals sub-Commission has handed out its first set of fines to political entities for clear breaches of the Electoral Code of Conduct...
OSCE supports multi-ethnic polling station committees in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 27 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 27 September 2000- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina wishes to underline its position with regard to the issue of multi-ethnic polling station committees in Srebrenica...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office calls on FRY Government to respect election results
Publishing date: 27 September 2000
VIENNA, 27 September 2000-- In reaction to yesterday\'s announcement of the Federal Election Commission in Belgrade of the provisional results of Sunday\'s elections...
Condolences on death of Kosovo Media Appeals Board member
Publishing date: 27 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 27 September 2000-- It is with great sadness that the OSCE Mission on Kosovo learned of the untimely death of Mr. Ramadan Vranici...
Election campaign launched in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 27 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 27 September 2000- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina announced today the start of the 2000 general election campaign, and called on all citizens to become actively engaged and pay serious attention to the issues at stake...
Candidate lists open to public scrutiny in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 26 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 26 September 2000- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina would like to announce that the lists of candidates put forward by political parties and...
Parliamentary Assembly issues statement on Yugoslav elections
Publishing date: 26 September 2000
COPENHAGEN, 25 September 2000-- Mr. Adrian Severin, MP (Romania), President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, welcomes the will for change expressed by the people of Yugoslavia through yesterday\'s elections...
OSCE offers public administration seminars in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 26 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 26 September 2000- After completing a series of country-wide training sessions for newly elected councillors, the OSCE Governance Program is shifting its focus to the executive branches of municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
Elections improve in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, but fall short on commitments
Publishing date: 25 September 2000
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
SKOPJE, 25 September 2000-- The 24 September second-round municipal elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYROM) showed improvement in some areas, but still fell...
OSCE and Yugoslavia- Important dates, timeline
Publishing date: 25 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Elections
VIENNA, 25 September 2000-- Following is background information and a timeline of recent OSCE involvement in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Serbia.
Financial disclosure reports filed in Kosovo
Publishing date: 25 September 2000
PRISTINA, 25 September 2000-- The political entities contesting the 28 October municipal elections in Kosovo have filed their first financial disclosure report..
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office issues statement on FRY elections
Publishing date: 25 September 2000
Content type: Press statement
What we do: Elections
VIENNA, 25 September 2000-- In reaction to yesterday's elections in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, said...
Party registration process in Azerbaijan raises serious concerns
Publishing date: 22 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Elections
WARSAW, 22 September 2000-- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) is extremely concerned that seven political parties were denied registration by the Central Election Commission...
Yerevan meeting looks at OSCE 25th anniversary
Publishing date: 22 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
YEREVAN, 22 September 2000-- The 25th anniversary of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe was the topic of a round table meeting in Yerevan today.
Voting program for those living outside Kosovo
Publishing date: 22 September 2000
VIENNA, 22 September 2000-- More than 38,000 voters packs are being mailed to people who currently live outside Kosovo and were registered by the International Organization for Migration to vote in the 28 October municipal elections...
OSCE police monitoring group to cease operations in Danube Region
Publishing date: 21 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Policing
ZAGREB, 21 September 2000- The OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna has decided that the OSCE Police Monitoring Group in the Danube Region will cease operations...
Freimut Duve: Concern for Missing Ukrainian Journalist
Publishing date: 21 September 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, 21 September 2000-- A prominent Ukrainian journalist, Heorhy Gongadze, editor of the online magazine Ukrainska Pravda, went missing in Kyiv on 16 September 2000...
Contribution limits for political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 20 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 19 September 2000- The Provisional Election Commission in Bosnia and Herzegovina has established the official limit on contributions to political parties pursuant to the State Law on Party Financing...
Albania should focus on election issues and acceptance of results
Publishing date: 19 September 2000
TIRANA, 19 September 2000-- The Friends of Albania Group, under the chairmanship of OSCE Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens, have launched an appeal to political parties in Albania to run an orderly and peaceful campaign and to accept the results of the ele
Code of conduct for print media in Kosovo
Publishing date: 19 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 18 September 2000- The United Nations Special Representative, Dr Bernard Kouchner, has signed the Print Code of Conduct into law...
Diplomas to be awarded to municipal staff in Kosovo
Publishing date: 18 September 2000
PRISTINA, 18 September 2000-- The Institute for Civil Administration in Kosovo will award diplomas to the first 30 participants of the Medium-Term Training Programme for Senior Municipal Staff on Wednesday, 20 September...
Election campaign spending limits in Kosovo
Publishing date: 18 September 2000
PRISTINA, 18 September 2000-- The Central Election Commission has set the campaign spending limits for the 30 municipalities in Kosovo, based on the provisional figures of registered voters...
Centre in Almaty issues statement on Kazakhstan election commissions
Publishing date: 18 September 2000
ALMATY, 18 September 2000-- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Centre in Almaty issued the following statement...
Kosovo Media Appeals Board decides on Dita appeal against Temporary Media Commissioner decision
Publishing date: 18 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 18 September-- On 16 September 2000, the Kosovo Media Appeals Board gave its decision in the appeal by Mr. Belul Beqaj and the newspaper Dita against a decision of the Temporary Media Commissioner...
OSCE/ODIHR to assess conduct of parliamentary elections in Belarus
Publishing date: 15 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
MINSK, 15 September 2000- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) yesterday deployed a Technical Assessment Mission to Belarus...
OSCE in Belarus issues statement on first anniversary of disappearance of Victor Gonchar and Anatoly Krasovsky
Publishing date: 15 September 2000
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
MINSK, 15 September 2000- The OSCE Advisory and Monitoring Group in Belarus notes that on September 16, 1999 Viktor Gonchar, First Vice Chairman of the 13th Supreme Soviet and his friend Anatoly Krasovsky disappeared...
Anti-corruption campaign launched in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 15 September 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 15 September 2000- The OSCE has announced the launch of its anti-corruption campaign "Nadglasajte Korupciju"...