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OSCE Kosovo Mission welcomes new leadership for local election operations body
Publishing date: 30 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 30 October 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo today welcomed the approval by the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Adnan Merovci and Bogoljub Staletovic as chief executive officer and his deputy, respectively, of its permanent Secretariat...
OSCE/ODIHR deploys observers to monitor parliamentary elections in Croatia
Publishing date: 29 October 2003
ZAGREB, 29 October 2003- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has opened an Election Observation Mission to monitor the elections to the Croatian parliament (Sabor) scheduled for 23 November, with deployment of 19...
OSCE co-ordinates sharing of ballot boxes between Armenian and Georgian elections
Publishing date: 29 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed), OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Elections
YEREVAN/TBILISI, 29 October 2003- Regional co-ordination between two OSCE missions has led to the signing of an agreement between Armenia's Central Electoral Commission and its counterpart in Georgia, covering the loan of 1,000 of Armenia's...
President Bruce George to lead OSCE Observation of Georgian Elections
Publishing date: 29 October 2003
COPENHAGEN, 29 October 2003- The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, Bruce George, will arrive in Tbilisi on Thursday to lead the OSCE Observers for the Parliamentary Elections in Georgia, which will take place on Sunday 2 November...
OSCE/ODIHR starts observation of presidential elections in Serbia
Publishing date: 23 October 2003
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
BELGRADE, 23 October 2003- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has established an Election Observation Mission to monitor the presidential elections in the Republic of Serbia, scheduled to take place on 16 November. The
OSCE Human Rights Head deplores wave of arrests in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 20 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections
WARSAW, 20 October 2003- Ambassador Christian Strohal, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), has expressed deep concern over a wave of arrests of opposition party officials and supporters in the wake of...
OSCE CiO on Azeri presidential elections and his visit to the Southern Caucasus
Publishing date: 17 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Elections
THE HAGUE, 17 October 2003- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has expressed concern about the post-election atmosphere in Azerbaijan, in which...