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Statement at the First Annual Security Review Conference, Vienna

Address given by Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, at a hearing by the Helsinki Commission of the United States Congress, Washington, 3 September 2003

Keynote address at the Annual Security Review Conference, Vienna

Germany: Religious Discrimination & Racism, contribution to the OSCE Conference on Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, Vienna

Position paper presented to the OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism, Vienna

Opening speech at the OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism, Vienna

An ODIHR assessment of the Ukrainian law on elections of people's deputies.

This document provides an analysis of the Law on Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine adopted by the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) on 18 October 2001 and signed by President Kuchma on 30 October. On 30 October, the President issued Decree No. 1022/2001 “On Securing Implementation of Citizens’ Rights, Principles of Democratic Society, Openness and Transparency of the 2002 Election Process”. The Decree contains a series of instructions to the central executive bodies and local state administrations. This Decree, when properly implemented, will increase the transparency of the elections. Though part of the legislation under which the elections will be conducted, this report does not review the presidential Decree. The present analysis is based on an English-language translation whose accuracy has not been verified. Therefore, some of the comments in the report may flow from problems in the translation rather than the original text.

The Broadcasting Law of the Republic of Moldova- Analysis and commentary for the OSCE

Agenda, Chairman's Summary, Report of the Working Group Rapporteurs of the 11th meeting of the OSCE Economic Forum, Prague, 20 to 23 May 2003.