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Chairman-in-Office delivers first address to OSCE Permanent Council

Publishing date: 11 January 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Border management, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti
VIENNA, 11 January 2001-- OSCE participating States must make a greater collective effort to respect individual human rights, to encourage access to prosperity, social justice and equal opportunity...

Head of Mission in Kosovo outlines priorities for 2001

Publishing date: 11 January 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing
VIENNA, 11 January 2001-- OSCE Head of Mission, Ambassador Daan Everts, is in Vienna this week to brief the OSCE Permanent Council on the Mission\'s operational priorities in Kosovo for 2001.

OSCE Chairman-in-Office issues statement on Turkmenistan amnesty decision

Publishing date: 10 January 2001
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BUCHAREST, 10 January 2001-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Dan Geoana, welcomes the Turkmen Government\'s decision to release Primukuli Tanrykuliev and Nurberdy Nurmamedov from prison...

Convention of refugee associations held in Zagreb

Publishing date: 18 December 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ZAGREB, 18 December 2000-- In a statement issued today, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Ambassador Bernard Poncet, welcomed the initiative of refugee associations in Croatia to organize a convention bringing together the various groups...

OSCE commemorates five years in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Publishing date: 18 December 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Arms control, Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Media freedom and development, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SARAJEVO, 18 December 2000-- Today, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina marks five years of work in the country. The Mission is based on the work of an earlier and smaller OSCE Mission founded in October 1994...

OSCE field activities continue efforts in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

Publishing date: 14 December 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed), OSCE Mission to Skopje, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights, Media freedom and development, National minority issues
VIENNA, 14 December 2000-- The OSCE Permanent Council today decided to extend the mandates of three OSCE field activities in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe...

OSCE adapts focus of office in Central Asia

Publishing date: 14 December 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
VIENNA, 14 December 2000-- The OSCE Liaison Office in Central Asia (CALO) has been renamed the OSCE Centre in Tashkent by the OSCE Permanent Council today.