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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairman-in-Office outraged by crimes against population in Kosovo
Publishing date: 1 April 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
OSLO, 1 April 1999-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Knut Vollebæk, expresses his profound outrage that Yugoslavian and Serbian forces have in recent days blatantly perpetrated, and continue to perpetrate, crimes agains
OSCE Chairman-in-Office pulls OSCE personnel out of Kosovo
Publishing date: 19 March 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
OSLO, 19 March 1999-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Vollebaek, today made the decision to withdraw the OSCE mission (the Kosovo...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office comments on EU Forensic Expert Team report on Racak
Publishing date: 17 March 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
OSLO, 17 March 1999-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister Knut Vollebaek of Norway, notes the publication of the...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office condemns terrorist attacks in Kosovo
Publishing date: 13 March 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
OSLO, 13 March 1999-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister Knut Vollebæk of Norway, strongly condemns the terrorist acts in Kosovo on 13 March. At...
Racak victims remain unburied
Publishing date: 10 February 1999
PRISTINA, 10 February 1999-- The bodies of 40 Albanian civilians killed in Racak on 15 th January remain unburied. The Kosovo Verification Mission deeply deplores the unresolved issue of the transference of the bodies from the FRY...
OSCE Permanent Council Chairman shocked over killings in Kosovo
Publishing date: 18 January 1999
VIENNA, 18 January 1999-- The Chairman of the Permanent Council of the OSCE, following today's discussion in the Permanent Council, expresses shock over the killings of ethnic Albanian civilians in southern Kosovo on Friday, 15 January....
OSCE Chairman-in-Office condemns atrocities in Kosovo
Publishing date: 16 January 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
What we do: Human rights
OSLO, 16 January 1999-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Foreign Minister Knut Vollebaek of Norway, expressed shock and outrage over the killings of ethnic Albanian...