News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE election observers to announce their findings in Belarus on Monday
Publishing date: 17 March 2006
MINSK, 17 March, 2006- The OSCE Election Observation Mission deployed to monitor the 19 March presidental election in Belarus will announce its preliminary findings and conclusions at a press conference on Monday. The Mission is a joint undertaking...
OSCE remains major actor in Bosnia and Herzegovina, says new High Representative Schwarz-Schilling
Publishing date: 16 March 2006
VIENNA, 16 March 2006- Christian Schwarz-Schilling, the new High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, stressed today the continued close co-operation between the OSCE and his Office to move the country toward full partnership with Europe...
OSCE Skopje Mission helps train teachers to work in multi-ethnic pre-schools
Publishing date: 16 December 2005
SKOPJE, 16 December 2005- Raising the standards of pre-school education and ensuring the inclusion of all ethnic groups, especially marginalized ones, was the aim of a series of workshops that ended today in Skopje. Twenty school teachers...
OSCE Mission encourages lifelong learning in Kosovo
Publishing date: 16 December 2005
PRISTINA, 16 December 2005- Lifelong learning is a guiding principle for developing education and training policy and introducing this concept to Kosovo is the focus of a two-day conference, which began today in Prishtine/Pristina...
OSCE Centre in Ashgabad supports English language training course for academics and doctors
Publishing date: 16 November 2005
ASHGABAD, 16 November 2005- Forty-two employees of various research, educational and medical institutions from across Turkmenistan today received certificates for having completed an English language course, supported by a co-operative initiative...
OSCE Centre supports election lessons for first-time voters in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 15 November 2005
ALMATY, 15 November 2005- Over 7,000 secondary school students from 10 regions of Kazakhstan who can cast their vote for the first time in the forthcoming presidential election on 4 December are today beginning a special course on elections, supported...
Chairman-in-Office welcomes progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina but warns of need to tackle remaining obstacles
Publishing date: 27 September 2005
SARAJEVO, 27 September 2005- In the course of a day-long visit to Sarajevo, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, noted Bosnia and Herzegovina's progress in many areas, particularly defence reform, pointing out...