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Third class graduates from Kosovo Police Service School
Publishing date: 25 April 2000
PRISTINA, 25 April 2000-- The OSCE Kosovo Police Service School graduated its third class on Saturday, 22 April. The 230 students have completed a nine-week course at the school...
Election Code of Conduct approved in Kosovo
Publishing date: 25 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 25 April 2000-- As one of its first tasks, the newly established Central Election Commission has issued a Code of Conduct for candidates, coalitions, political parties and their...
Army to reduce weapons stocks in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 21 April 2000
Content type: Press release
SARAJEVO, 21 April 2000-- The Personal Representative's Office for Articles II and IV along with the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina welcome the decision by the Army of the...
OSCE to release certified municipal election results for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 20 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 20 April 2000-- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Provisional Election Commission will announce the technically certified...
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Helle Degn visits Georgia and Armenia
Publishing date: 19 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 19 April 2000-- On 23-28 April 2000, Mrs. Helle Degn, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, will visit Georgia and Armenia to gain further...
Complaint dismissed on counting procedures in Bosnia and Herzegovina elections
Publishing date: 19 April 2000
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 19 April 2000-- The Election Appeals Sub-Commission in Bosnia and Herzegovina dismissed a complaint by the Party of Democratic Action (SDA)...
Threats against journalists condemned in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 18 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Media freedom and development
SARAJEVO, 18 April 2000- The Office of the High Representative and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina express their deepest concern over an abusive leaflet that...
109 officials resign from positions in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 18 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 18 April 2000-- The Organization for Seciurity and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina welcomes the recent decisions of 109 officials to...
Kosovo Central Election Commission holds first meeting
Publishing date: 18 April 2000
PRISTINA, 18 April 2000-- The body responsible for the conduct of elections in Kosovo, the Central Election Commission, met for the first time today. It is an essential dimension...
High-level representatives attended Forum to discuss international economic and environmental policy
Publishing date: 17 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
PRAGUE, 17 April 2000-- High-level representatives responsible for shaping international economic and environmental policy met in...
First official meeting of Kosovo Central Election Commission
Publishing date: 17 April 2000
PRISTINA, 17 April 2000- The body which will establish the procedures for elections in Kosovo, the Central Election Commission, meets for the first time officially on...
OSCE to reopen office for Assistance Group to Chechnya
Publishing date: 15 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
MOSCOW, 15 April 2000-- The Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner today concluded a visit to the Russian Federation...
Swiss contribution to Kosovo news agency
Publishing date: 14 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 14 April 2000-- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo is pleased to announce that the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs will contribute EUR 100,000 to the establishment of a news agency for Kosovo...
Process begins for Kosovo civil and voter registration
Publishing date: 14 April 2000
PRISTINA, 14 April 2000-- Next week sees the start of civil registration in Kosovo. This is the chance for every Kosovo resident to register, and will form the basis of the...
OSCE calls for proper conduct by Kosovo political parties
Publishing date: 14 April 2000
PRISTINA, 14 April 2000-- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has received reports of two political parties posting photos in their office windows of people...
Three elected officials removed for violating conflict of interest rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 14 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 14 April 2000- The Provisional Election Commission in Bosnia and Herzegovina has removed the elected mandates of Pero Markovic...
OSCE expands Georgia border monitoring mission
Publishing date: 13 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management
VIENNA, 13 April 2000-- The Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, welcomes today's decision of the Permanent Council to strengthen the OSCE...
Freimut Duve: Onslaught against Serbian media continues
Publishing date: 12 April 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, 12 April 2000-- On 12 April, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, responded to a letter sent to him by the Yugoslav Ambassador to Austria, Rados Smiljkovic, who accused...
OSCE and CoE Hold High-Level Meeting in Vienna
Publishing date: 12 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
VIENNA, 12 April 2000-- The Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Foreign Minster Benita Ferrero-Waldner of Austria, the Secretary General of the OSCE, Jan Kubis, the Chairman of the...
Preliminary results released in Bosnia and Herzegovina elections
Publishing date: 11 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 11 April 2000- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina today released preliminary municipal election results for 33 additional municipalities. These...
Presidential elections in Georgia: OSCE statement on preliminary findings and conclusions
Publishing date: 10 April 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, 10 April 2000- The OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission concluded that considerable progress is necessary for Georgia to fully meet...
Press briefing on civil and voter registration in Kosovo
Publishing date: 10 April 2000
PRISTINA, 10 April 2000-- Staff are getting ready to start the civil registration process in Kosovo. Hundreds of people are being trained to tackle...
Statement by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on municipal elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 10 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
VIENNA, 10 April 2000-- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Austria Benita Ferrero-Waldner, welcomes the peaceful and orderly...
OSCE satisfied with polling process in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 9 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 9 April 2000- Ambassador Robert Barry, Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, stated earlier today that the Mission was satisfied with the way in...
Report: Discrimination and exclusion are fundamental features of the Roma experience
Publishing date: 7 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
What we do: Roma and Sinti
HAGUE, 7 April 2000- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Max van der Stoel, today issued a "Report on the Situation of Roma and...
Celebration of International Roma day
Publishing date: 7 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: National minority issues, Roma and Sinti
PRISTINA, 7 April 2000-- A Roma band from Norway will be the highlight of the celebration of the International Roma day in Prizren, Saturday 8 April. OSCE in co-operation with the Prizren-based NGO...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms increased pressure on journalists
Publishing date: 6 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Media freedom and development
SARAJEVO, 6 April 2000- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina has analyzed the reports of threat and intimidation made in the past year against...
OSCE reminds out-of-country voters about their voting options in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 6 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 6 April 2000- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina reminds all out-of-country voters present in the country on election day that...
Elections integrity to be guaranteed by domestic and international observers in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 6 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Elections
SARAJEVO, 6 April 2000- With more than 6,600 domestic and international election observers, including 750 international supervisors,...
Environmental impact of conflicts and post-conflict rehabilitation to be discussed at 8th OSCE Economic Forum
Publishing date: 5 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
VIENNA, 5 April 2000-- The Eighth Economic Forum of the OSCE will take place in Prague from 11 to 14 April 2000. The Forum...
OSCE/ODIHR supports activities surrounding the International Roma Day
Publishing date: 5 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Roma and Sinti
Warsaw, 5 April 2000- The OSCE/ODIHR Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues supports a number of awareness-raising activities organized on the occasion of the...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office expresses serious concern about recent developments in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 5 April 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
Vienna, 5 April 2000- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, is seriously concerned about reports...
Training to start for journalists in Kosovo
Publishing date: 31 March 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 31 March 2000-- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is launching a training course for local radio journalists from across Kosovo, to begin Monday 3rd April....
OSCE Chairmanship deplores unprovoked show of police force in Belarus
Publishing date: 27 March 2000
VIENNA, 27 March 2000-- The OSCE Chairmanship has learned with alarm about an unprovoked, unjustified and exaggerated show of police force in Minsk, Belarus on 25...
OSCE/ODIHR meets Presidential Representative for Human Rights in Chechnya and agrees to develop concrete support
Publishing date: 24 March 2000
Content type: Press release
MOSCOW, 24 March 2000-- Vladimir Kalamanov, the Russian Presidential Special Representative for Human Rights in Chechnya,...
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),...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
OSCE welcomes Russian appointment of human rights representative for Chechnya
Publishing date: 28 February 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Assistance Group to Chechnya (closed)
What we do: Human rights
VIENNA, 28 February 2000-- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Austria Benita Ferrero-Waldner, welcomes the...
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 Parliamentry Assembly to visit Moldova
Publishing date: 24 February 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Democratization
COPENHAGEN, 24 February 2000-- From 29 February to 3 March 2000, the recently established OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Team on Moldova will visit Moldova to support the OSCE\'s efforts of...
Registered NGOs in Kosovo invited to general meeting
Publishing date: 24 February 2000
PRISTINA, 24 February 2000-- The Interim NGO Council, with support from the Democratization department of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo will hold a general meeting for all non-governmental...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office visits Croatia
Publishing date: 18 February 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
VIENNA, 18 February 2000-- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Austria Benita Ferraro-Waldner, today paid a one-day visit to Croatia, where she took part in the formal...
OSCE establishes new field office in Osh, Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 18 February 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
VIENNA, 18 February 2000-- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe will open a new field office in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, to assist the OSCE Centre in Bishkek in carrying...