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OSCE hosts trial monitoring conference in Tirana
Publishing date: 21 November 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights
TIRANA, 21 November 2002- A regional discussion on the monitoring of criminal trials brought legal personnel from the six OSCE field missions across south-eastern Europe together in Tirana this week...
OSCE roundtable in Albania discusses women's rights, anti-trafficking
Publishing date: 15 November 2002
Content type: Press release
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
TIRANA, 15 November 2002- Women's rights in Albania and measures against trafficking in human beings supported by the OSCE brought together Albanian and international experts in a roundtable today. The Tirana roundtable, hosted...
OSCE Presence in Albania welcomes amendments to law on radio and TV
Publishing date: 11 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Media freedom and development
TIRANA, 11 November 2002- The OSCE Presence in Albania welcomed the unanimous adoption of amendments to the "Law on Public and Private Radio and Television in the Republic of Albania" by the Parliament. The amendments of last...
Albanian Parliament Speaker praises OSCE work in his country
Publishing date: 13 September 2002
TIRANA, 13 September 2002- The Speaker of the Albanian Parliament, Servet Pellumbi, praised the OSCE's role in consolidating democratic institutions in Albania. "We are at a new phase of understanding and co-operation among...
Albania "in forefront of reform", outgoing OSCE mission head says
Publishing date: 29 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 29 August 2002- Albania has made encouraging progress during the last three years and is, in some respects, in the forefront of reform in south-east Europe, Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens said in his End-of-Mission address to...
Successor named to Geert-Hinrich Ahrens as Head of OSCE Presence in Albania
Publishing date: 7 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Presence in Albania
VIENNA, 7 August 2002- A Finnish diplomat has been named to succeed the current Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens, who will relinquish his post after more than three years of distinguished service on 31 August...
Outgoing OSCE Head in Tirana holds last meeting with Friends of Albania Group
Publishing date: 24 July 2002
TIRANA, 24 July 2002- In his capacity as Chairman of the local Friends of Albania Group, Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens, Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, called together a session of the Group yesterday in Tirana's German Embassy...