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Welcoming remarks by Peter Stenlund, Ambassador of Finland to Norway, Representative of the OSCE Chairmanship
Publishing date: 20 June 2008
Remarks at the Conference on Linguistic Rights of National Minorities: Ten Years after the Oslo Recommendations and Beyond, University of Oslo, 18-19 June 2008
High Commissioner's address to 5th World Congress of the Finno-Ugric Peoples, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
Publishing date: 28 June 2008
Ukraine, Presidential Election, 17 January and 7 February 2010: Final Report
Publishing date: 28 April 2010
We do not have time for silence: proliferation of the hate speech and hate accidents in Georgia in years 2009â€2010
Publishing date: 8 October 2010
Background Documents, Review Conference Warsaw, 30 September-8 October 2010
CASE National Strategy: Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 1 December 2009
Civic Action for Security and Environment (CASE) National Strategy for Azerbaijan
Reasoning in War Crimes Judgements in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenges and Good Practices
Publishing date: 15 December 2009
Collections: War crimes related documents and publications
The judgement is the most awaited-for, visible, and lasting aspect of a trial. In war crimes proceedings in particular, the judgement, on the one hand, constitutes the peak point in administering justice for the actors involved in the trial, while on the other hand, it has a far wider impact. It can have reverberating effects on the communities involved and their understanding of past atrocities, on politics, on the development of national and international law, on society at large- even beyond geographical boundaries- and on history.
Presentation by Dziunik Aghajanyan, Head of the Department for International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Armenia
Publishing date: 16 March 2009
Collections: Economic and Environmental Forum preparatory conference summaries, Documents from the 17th Economic Forum
Session II- Second Preparatory Conference of the 17th Economic and Environmental Forum, Tirana, 16-17 March 2009
Joint Opinion on the Electoral Code of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as revised on 29 October 2008
Publishing date: 5 August 2009
Collections: Election-related Legal Opinions and Comments
The present opinion was elaborated following resolution 1320 (2003) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which invites the Venice Commission to formulate opinions concerning possible improvements to legislation and practices in particular member States or applicant countries. The recent amendments include changes in the voter turnout requirement for presidential elections, out-of-country voting, voter registration, campaign finance and the complaints and appeals process. Some of the amendments are based on a draft working text amending the electoral code, which was reviewed by the Venice Commission and the OSCE/ODIHR in 2007 (CDL-AD(2007)012). This current review should be read together with this document and other relevant Joint Opinions (see par. 4). Many comments in previous texts have been taken into account, although others remain to be addressed. Not all are included in this document.
Survey on Decentralization 2008
Publishing date: 4 December 2008
Collections: Presentations on digital media
Survey published by the Public Administration Reform Department of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje.
Interview with Ambassador Jose Luis Herrero, Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje
Publishing date: 12 March 2009
Published in daily newspaper Dnevnik, 12 March 2009.