News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre trains public servants to protect environment while implementing land reform in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 6 June 2007
VARZOB, Tajikistan, 6 June 2007- Teaching public servants to apply environmental protection mechanisms while managing the land reform process is the aim of an OSCE-supported seminar which ends in Varzob, near Dushanbe, on Friday...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports Parliamentary television with equipment donation
Publishing date: 6 June 2007
SKOPJE, 6 June 2007- The OSCE Mission to Skopje today handed over audio and visual production equipment worth about 140,000 euros to the Parliament for use by the Parliamentary Channel...
OSCE Centre helps devise and implement gender policies in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 5 June 2007
KHUJAND, Tajikistan, 5 June 2007- Raising awareness of gender equality issues among civil servants and providing them with gender analysis tools for their everyday work are the aims of a five-day OSCE-supported training course which started in Khujand...
OSCE seminar in Madrid to set up police gender balance network
Publishing date: 5 June 2007
MADRID, 5 June 2007- A seminar on gender balance in police management, organized by the OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit and the Spanish Chairmanship, starts today in Madrid...
OSCE to assess parliamentary poll in Belgium
Publishing date: 5 June 2007
WARSAW/BRUSSELS, 5 June 2007- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE/ODIHR, has sent an election assessment mission to Belgium for the June 10 parliamentary elections, following an invitation from the Belgian authorities...
OSCE Mission awards scholarships to Serbian Interior Ministry employees
Publishing date: 5 June 2007
BELGRADE, 5 June 2007- The OSCE Mission to Serbia today awarded eight employees of the Serbian Interior Ministry with scholarships for postgraduate studies in global and national security...
Spanish Chairmanship says Armenia made election progress and OSCE willing to help further
Publishing date: 5 June 2007
YEREVAN, 5 June 2007- Armenia made commendable progress during last month's parliamentary elections and the OSCE is willing to help the country continue that trend in next year's presidential poll, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office said today.
OSCE Mission Head calls for strengthening efforts to protect environment in Serbia
Publishing date: 5 June 2007
BELGRADE, 5 June 2007- On the occasion of the World Environmental Day, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, drew attention to environmental hazards in Serbia and called on the authorities and the public to strengthen...
OSCE Representative opens seminar in Minsk, voices concern over State control over media
Publishing date: 4 June 2007
MINSK, 4 June 2007- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, opened a seminar for some 30 journalists and government press secretaries in Minsk today...
Austrian energy-autonomous city to host OSCE delegation on International Environment Day
Publishing date: 4 June 2007
VIENNA, 4 June 2007- On the occasion of the International Environment Day, marked on 5 June, more than 40 OSCE delegates will visit the Austrian city of Gussing which relies exclusively on renewable energy...