News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre promotes efficient management of trans-boundary water resources
Publishing date: 31 May 2007
ALMATY, 31 May 2007- Sustainable management of ground water resources that stretch across international borders was the topic as experts from Central Asia and the Caucasus began meeting today at a workshop supported by the OSCE Centre in Almaty...
Secretary of State Rice says OSCE doing important work, pledges United States will remain active in leadership role
Publishing date: 31 May 2007
VIENNA, 31 May 2007- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the OSCE today the Organization was doing important work to consolidate a Europe that is whole, free, democratic and at peace, and she pledged the United States would stay actively...
OSCE meeting to promote public-private partnerships in combating terrorism
Publishing date: 30 May 2007
VIENNA, 30 May 2007- State officials, representatives of civil society and the business community will examine how they can work together to fight terrorism at a two-day OSCE meeting that starts tomorrow in Vienna.
OSCE Mission funds first "Police Open Day" in Tbilisi
Publishing date: 30 May 2007
TBILISI, 30 May 2007- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Georgia, the Georgian Deputy Minister of the Interior and more than 200 schoolchildren will participate in Tbilisi's first police open day on Friday, 1 June.
OSCE Mission, Political Science Faculty present students' best radio and television reports
Publishing date: 30 May 2007
BELGRADE, 30 May 2007- The best radio and television reports produced by journalism students at Serbia's Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade were presented to the public yesterday...
OSCE Mission to Skopje encourages co-operation to tackle drug abuse
Publishing date: 30 May 2007
SKOPJE, 30 May 2007- The Interior Ministry handed a document containing information about all institutions dealing with drug abuse to local officials and civil society leaders today during a workshop organized by the OSCE Mission to Skopje...
OSCE Mission to Skopje brings police and school children together for lessons on safety
Publishing date: 30 May 2007
SKOPJE, 30 May 2007- Helping 2,000 school children learn about personal and public safety was the aim of a series of presentations given by police officers in 16 elementary schools in the Skopje municipality of Saraj that concluded today...
OSCE Mission launches education centre for Kosovo media
Publishing date: 29 May 2007
PRISTINA, 29 May 2007- A new educational institution opened today by the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo offers media professionals a chance to enhance their skills...
OSCE supports international youth co-operation on ecological problems
Publishing date: 29 May 2007
YEREVAN, 29 May 2007- Ecological challenges faced by cities in mountainous regions is the topic of a two-day international youth conference that started today in Yerevan.
OSCE Mission Head to open newly-built police training centres in south Serbia
Publishing date: 29 May 2007
BELGRADE, 29 May 2007- New police training centres financed by Norway through the OSCE Mission to Serbia will be inaugurated in the southern Serbian towns of Medvedja, Bujanovac and Presevo on 30 and 31 May...