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OSCE Chairperson condemns Moscow metro attacks, offers condolences
Publishing date: 29 March 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing, Rule of law
ASTANA, 29 March 2010- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakh Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev condemned today the bomb attacks on the Moscow metro system today that killed at least 35 and wounded scores of innocent people...
OSCE announces winners of video contest on civil society
Publishing date: 6 November 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
VIENNA, 5 November 2009- The winners of a video contest highlighting civil society in action, launched by the OSCE to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, were announced at the OSCE Permanent Council today...
OSCE fosters Albania and Montenegro law enforcement co-operation in fight against trafficking and organized crime
Publishing date: 15 November 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Mission to Montenegro, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
TIRANA, 15 November 2007- Enhancing co-operation between Albanian and Montenegrin police, prosecutors and judges in the fight against transnational organized crime was the focus of an OSCE meeting that ended in Shkodra today...
OSCE event in Albania encourages law enforcement co-operation in fight against trafficking and organized crime
Publishing date: 27 September 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Policing
TIRANA, 27 September 2007- The OSCE Spanish Chairmanship and the OSCE's Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU) is holding a discussion forum this week in Albania on the challenges in the fight against transnational organized crime and human trafficking...
OSCE's Belgian Chairmanship says helped start new chapter for Organization
Publishing date: 5 December 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Summits / Ministerial Councils
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Education, Elections, Countering terrorism, Gender equality, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti, Rule of law, Tolerance and non-discrimination
BRUSSELS, 5 December 2006- OSCE Chairman Karel De Gucht said today Belgium had helped redress the balance between the three aspects of security and championed reforms that could end an introspective episode and start a new chapter for the Organization...
OSCE Chairman expresses condolences after staff member dies in Kosovo car accident
Publishing date: 30 November 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Policing
BRUSSELS, 30 November 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, expressed his condolences today to the family of an OSCE Mission in Kosovo staff member who died in a car accident on Wednesday evening...
Police chiefs from OSCE countries agree to enhance co-operation to fight organized crime
Publishing date: 24 November 2006
BRUSSELS, 24 November, 2006- At a Conference organized today at the initiative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, police chiefs from more than 50 OSCE countries agreed to intensify international...