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OSCE Special Envoy in Georgia ahead of special Permanent Council meeting on Abkhazia incident
Publishing date: 29 April 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
TBILISI, 29 April 2008- Heikki Talvitie, the Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairman, said today he had constructive discussions with Georgian authorities on the 20 April airspace incident over Abkhazia and on...
OSCE trains Georgian government officials, journalists with focus on facilitating access to information
Publishing date: 18 March 2008
Content type: Press release
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
TBILISI, 18 March 2008- Fostering effective ties between government bodies and journalists and increasing access to official information are the focus of a two-day OSCE training seminar that started in Tbilisi today...
OSCE Mission helps ethnic minorities integrate into Georgian civil society
Publishing date: 5 March 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: National minority issues
TBILISI, 5 March 2008- Seventy three people from ethnic minorities in Georgia's Kvemo Kartli region are improving their Georgian language skills as part of an OSCE-sponsored project aimed at integrating ethnic minorities into civil society...
Schools, clinics and water supply renovation discussed at OSCE-chaired meeting in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict
Publishing date: 15 February 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
TBILISI, 15 February 2008- Ongoing internationally-funded projects for the economic rehabilitation of the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict were discussed at an OSCE-chaired meeting in Tskhinvali today...
OSCE Mission presents publications to support judicial reform and legislative process in Georgia
Publishing date: 19 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Rule of law
TBILISI, 19 December 2007.- The OSCE Mission to Georgia is supporting judicial reform and the legislative process in the country with two new publications aimed at legal professionals. A two-volume work on the constitutions of foreign countries was...
OSCE officials visit water supply projects in Georgia's conflict zone
Publishing date: 14 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
TSKHINVALI, Georgia, 14 December 2007- The OSCE Head of the Mission to Georgia, Ambassador Terhi Hakala, and the British Ambassador to Georgia, Denis Keefe, today visited several completed OSCE water supply projects that provide safe drinking water...
OSCE media freedom representative in Georgia to discuss TV station closure
Publishing date: 22 November 2007
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 22 November 2007- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, is in the Georgian capital Tbilisi today to discuss the media situation, in particular the recent closure of television station Imedi...