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OSCE inaugurates Annual Security Review Conference in Vienna

Publishing date: 25 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 25 June 2003- Opening the OSCE's first-ever Annual Security Review Conference, Ambassador Daan Everts, Head of the OSCE Task Force of the Netherlands Chairmanship, called for the meeting to produce practical tasks and recommendations...

OSCE meeting in Ukraine discusses democratic control of armed forces by civil society

Publishing date: 17 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
KYIV, 17 June 2003- Improving the integration of armed forces into civil society and strengthening parliamentary oversight of the army, police and security forces were on top of the agenda of a two-day OSCE workshop which ended in Kyiv, Ukraine today...

OSCE supports first international mine clearance project in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 29 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
DUSHANBE, 29 May 2003- An agreement to start the first internationally supported mine clearance operations in Tajikistan was signed today in the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe, clearing the way for a nation-wide Mine Action Project to start in June...

Serbian Deputy PM welcomes support from OSCE Permanent Council

Publishing date: 15 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism, National minority issues, Policing
VIENNA, 15 May 2003- Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Nebojsa Covic, made an impassioned plea at the Permanent Council on Thursday for recognition by the international community that his country had undergone a thorough transformation since the days...

OSCE holds workshops in Central Asian Region on civil-military relations

Publishing date: 13 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Democratization, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 13 May- A team of OSCE experts are in Central Asia this week to promote OSCE standards on civil-military relations, including democratic oversight of the armed forces. The experts are meeting government officials and senior military...

OSCE CiO urges all parties to keep momentum in solving Transdniestrian issue

Publishing date: 3 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
CHISINAU, 3 April 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, urged President Vladimir Voronin and Foreign Minister Nicolae Dudau of Moldova and the Transdniestrian leader Igor Smirnov to keep the...

OSCE Mission Head welcomes Serbian government's efforts to remove illegally held weapons

Publishing date: 28 March 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
BELGRADE, 27 March 2003- Ambassador Maurizio Massari, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, today welcomed the decree of the Serbian authorities, aimed at removing illegally held weapons from society. This decree, which came...