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OSCE Security Conference considers fresh options
Publishing date: 27 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Forum for Security Co-operation, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 26 June 2003- The OSCE's first-ever Annual Security Review Conference closed yesterday with its main aim successfully met- that of identifying a range of practical options for the Organization to address the new threats and challenges to...
Prague Economic Forum ends with concrete anti-trafficking measures recommended to OSCE States
Publishing date: 23 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
PRAGUE, 23 May 2003- Stronger involvement of the business community and the establishment of an international network of anti-trafficking non-governmental organizations, brokered by the OSCE, are among the key recommendations discussed at the...
UN and OSCE to move onto second phase of joint initiative on environment and security
Publishing date: 21 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
PRAGUE, 21 May 2003- A joint United Nations-OSCE initiative to promote co-operation in environmental matters and security questions will receive a major boost today when the OSCE Economic Forum, taking place in Prague, will be linked via video...
Chairman-in-Office urges OSCE States to take concrete steps in fight against trafficking
Publishing date: 20 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
PRAGUE, 20 May 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has called on OSCE States at the 11th OSCE Economic Forum to identify concrete steps to better fight trafficking...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office: no premature discussion about final status of Kosovo
Publishing date: 24 April 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Mission to Serbia
THE HAGUE, 24 April 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, does not support the idea of starting a discussion now about the final status of Kosovo. "I believe such a discussion is premature at...
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
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 Chairman's Central Asia Envoy Ahtisaari encourages Tajikistan to pursue democratization
Publishing date: 25 March 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 25 March 2003- The Personal Envoy for Central Asia of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, encouraged Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmonov to continue with the valuable efforts...