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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission and Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights reject contradiction over tenancy rights figures
Publishing date: 2 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
ZAGREB, 2 June 2003- The OSCE Mission to Croatia and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights have clarified the background to the figures recently presented in the media or attributed to these organizations in relation to the number of terminated...
Serbia returning to normality, says OSCE Mission Head
Publishing date: 20 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution
BELGRADE, 19 May 2003-- In an article published this week in Serbia's Vreme magazine, the OSCE Head of Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari, outlined that Serbia's priority must be to fully return to a normal situation...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office expresses distress about violence in Chechnya
Publishing date: 15 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
THE HAGUE, 15 May 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has written to the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Igor Ivanov, to convey his distress about the recent acts of violence in the Russian...
Serbian Deputy PM welcomes support from OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 15 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
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 Mission welcomes agreement in southern Serbia municipality on composition of managing boards
Publishing date: 13 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 13 May 2003- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro today welcomed a hard-won agreement which outlines the allocation of directorships and the composition of managing boards in the multi-ethnic southern Serbia municipality of...
OSCE PA seminar on federalism starts in Moldova
Publishing date: 12 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
CHISINAU, 12 May 2003- Bruce George, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) joined fellow parliamentarians from the Moldovan Parliament and the Transdniestrian Supreme Soviet today in Chisinau to open a key seminar on federalism in...
UN Mission in Kosovo at most critical phase, UNMIK Head tells OSCE
Publishing date: 8 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
VIENNA, 8 May 2003- The United Nations Mission in Kosovo has entered what is perhaps its most critical and delicate phase as powers are transferred from the international community to local bodies, Michael Steiner, Special Representative of the UN...