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Portuguese Chairmanship urges Belarus to comply with OSCE commitments

Publishing date: 10 September 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 10 September 2002- The Portuguese OSCE Chairmanship has issued the following statement: Despite all efforts made by the OSCE Chairmanship, through direct contacts with Minsk, to overcome the current difficulties between Belarus and the OSCE...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office condemns kidnapping in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Publishing date: 30 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Countering terrorism, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
LISBON, 30 August 2002-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz, today condemned the kidnapping of civilians in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and called for their...

International community urges release and peaceful end to Macedonian kidnapping

Publishing date: 30 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Countering terrorism, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SKOPE, 30 August, 2002-- The following is a Joint Statement by the EU Special Representative Alain Le Roy, Ambassador Ioannis Economou, the US Ambassador Lawrence Butler, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, Craig Jenness...

Chairman of OSCE Permanent Council condemns killing of Macedonian police officers as "cowardly act of violence"

Publishing date: 29 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Countering terrorism, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 29 August 2002- The Chairman of the OSCE Permanent Council today condemned in the strongest terms the killing of two Macedonian police officers on 26 August in a drive-by shooting near the town of Gostivar. "We condemn in the strongest terms...

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
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution
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...

OSCE Mission condemns killing of two police reservists in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Publishing date: 26 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SKOPJE, 26 August 2002- Ambassador Craig Jenness, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, strongly condemned the killing of two police reservists Monday night in Gostivar. "We deeply regret this criminal act and express our sincere condolences...

Negotiations process on Transdniestrian settlement restarts in Chisinau

Publishing date: 23 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
CHISINAU, 23 August 2002- Negotiations aimed at making progress towards a Transdniestrian settlement have restarted in the Moldovan capital Chisinau. Yesterday's meeting at the OSCE Mission to Moldova was the first of the "Chisinau Round"...