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The Netherlands takes over OSCE Chairmanship
Publishing date: 7 January 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Troika, Permanent Council
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Border management, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Countering terrorism, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti
VIENNA/THE HAGUE, 7 January 2003- The Netherlands will make the fight against trafficking in human beings, weapons and drugs a key focus of its Chairmanship of the OSCE, which began on 1 January. "The Netherlands has decided to focus attention...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office condemns kidnapping in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Publishing date: 30 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
LISBON, 30 August 2002-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz, today condemned the kidnapping of civilians in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and called for their...
OSCE at important moment in its evolution, says new Chairman-in-Office
Publishing date: 2 May 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
VIENNA, 2 May 2002- The new Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Portuguese Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz, said on Thursday that the Organization was at an important moment in its evolution but stressed that it should remain an effective forum...
New OSCE Chairman-in-Office makes fight against terrorism Organization's priority for 2002
Publishing date: 17 January 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 17 January 2002- The new OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, today announced in his first speech to the Organization's 55-nation Permanent Council that the fight against terrorism will be one of OSCE's priorities
OSCE Chairman-in-Office welcomes adoption of new constitution by Macedonian Parliament
Publishing date: 16 November 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
BUCHAREST, 16 November 2001- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, has welcomed the decision taken last night by the Macedonian Parliament to adopt a new constitution, which gives greater rights to the Albanian...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office welcomes redeployment of police officers in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Publishing date: 24 October 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
BUCHAREST, 24 October 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, welcomes the redeployment, last Monday, of police officers of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia into the five pilot villages
OSCE- Security issues dominate meeting between Mr. Ivanov and Mr. Geoana in Moscow
Publishing date: 23 October 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Assistance Group to Chechnya (closed)
MOSCOW, 23 October 2001 (OSCE)- Security issues dominated the meeting today between the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana and the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Mr. Igor Ivanov