News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Skopje encourages co-operation to tackle drug abuse
Publishing date: 30 May 2007
SKOPJE, 30 May 2007- The Interior Ministry handed a document containing information about all institutions dealing with drug abuse to local officials and civil society leaders today during a workshop organized by the OSCE Mission to Skopje...
OSCE Mission to Skopje brings police and school children together for lessons on safety
Publishing date: 30 May 2007
SKOPJE, 30 May 2007- Helping 2,000 school children learn about personal and public safety was the aim of a series of presentations given by police officers in 16 elementary schools in the Skopje municipality of Saraj that concluded today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports co-operation between central and local government in decentralization process
Publishing date: 15 May 2007
SKOPJE, 15 May 2007- Around 100 municipal and central level officials discussed how to improve the efficiency of public administration in implementing the administrative procedure to better satisfy citizens' needs at a conference in Skopje today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports training of municipal officers on tax administration
Publishing date: 11 May 2007
SKOPJE, 11 May 2007- Some 120 administration officers from 84 municipalities will take part in a series of workshops on tax collection regulations, with the first one held in Dojran today...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities visits Skopje
Publishing date: 10 May 2007
SKOPJE, 10 May 2007- The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Ambassador Rolf Ekeus ended a three-day visit to Skopje and Tetovo today, during which he met government officials and political party and minority representatives...
Norwegian police officers visit OSCE Skopje Mission
Publishing date: 8 May 2007
SKOPJE, 8 May 2007- Nine Norwegian police officers visited the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje this week to study community policing, and activities aimed at combating organized crime and human trafficking...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports community policing practices to prevent illegal woodcutting
Publishing date: 10 April 2007
SKOPJE, 10 April 2007- Students, teachers, police officers, members of the local Citizens Advisory Group, and municipal authorities planted 150 birch trees in the garden of the Gjergj Kastriot-Skenderbeu primary school in Aracinovo today...