News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Armenian police training centre opens after renovation
Publishing date: 23 March 2007
YEREVAN, 23 March 2007- An Armenian police training Centre, renovated as part of an OSCE police assistance programme, opened in Yerevan today. Under the programme, implemented by the OSCE Office in Yerevan in co-operation with the Armenian Police...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes French acquittal in cartoons row
Publishing date: 22 March 2007
VIENNA, 22 March 2007- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said he welcomes today's acquittal of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in a trial initiated in 2006 by Muslim institutions for publishing three cartoons...
OSCE Moldova Mission and Defence Ministry to destroy surplus weapons
Publishing date: 22 March 2007
CHISINAU, 22 March 2007- More than 11,000 artillery shells, 377 anti-tank guided missiles and almost half a million rounds of ammunition will be destroyed thanks to a project agreed on today by the Moldovan Defence Ministry and the OSCE Mission...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports training on decentralization in education
Publishing date: 21 March 2007
SKOPJE, 21 March 2007- Educating trainers who in turn will teach parents and teachers about their rights and responsibilities in the decentralized education system is the purpose of a series of workshops, the first of which concluded today...
OSCE advisory teams help promote human rights in Kosovo's ministries
Publishing date: 21 March 2007
PRISTINA, 21 March 2007- Ambassador Werner Wnendt, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, will today host a ceremony in Prishtine/Pristina to mark the first year of the deployment of OSCE Human Rights Advisory Teams in Kosovo ministries...
OSCE Mission to Skopje helps develop community policing
Publishing date: 21 March 2007
SKOPJE, 21 March 2007- Ten scooters worth more than 30,000 euros were handed over by the OSCE Mission to the Interior Ministry in Skopje today. They will be used to boost the efficiency of the OSCE-supported community-policing programme...
OSCE focuses on combating illicit trafficking of small arms, light weapons by air
Publishing date: 21 March 2007
VIENNA, 21 March 2007- The OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation held a special meeting today to discuss ways of combating the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons by air...
OSCE Mission to Skopje brings together students and police for environmental action
Publishing date: 21 March 2007
SKOPJE, 21 March 2007- Some 300 high school students from Skopje municipalities of Karpos and Kondovo and police officers from Karpos and Gjorce Petrov municipalities marked Ecology Day by cleaning up the banks of the Vardar river...
OSCE Office boosts capacity of local migration services in south Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 20 March 2007
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 20 March 2007- Kyrgyz migration policies and legislation are the focus of OSCE-supported training courses for local officials and representatives of law enforcement bodies that are being held in Osh, Jalalabat and Batken provinces...
OSCE and other observers concerned by lack of dialogue between Moldova and Transdniestria
Publishing date: 20 March 2007
VIENNA, 20 March 2007- The co-mediators seeking a solution to the Transdniestrian conflict issued the following statement today: