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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office supports introduction of community policing in Armenia
Publishing date: 20 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Policing
YEREVAN, 20 March 2007- Bringing police closer to the public and increasing citizens' confidence in police is the goal of an agreement signed today by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the Armenian Police...
OSCE Office to strengthen support for small and medium enterprises in Armenia
Publishing date: 20 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Economic activities
YEREVAN, 20 March 2007- Intensifying efforts to help Armenian small and medium enterprises prosper is the purpose of a memorandum of understanding signed today by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the Small and Medium Entrepreneurship...
OSCE promotes media self-regulation in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 March 2007
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development
ASTANA, 20 March 2007- Raising awareness in Kazakhstan on the benefits of media self-regulation was the aim of an OSCE-organized roundtable discussion in Astana today...
ODIHR deploys long-term observation mission to Armenia
Publishing date: 19 March 2007
Content type: Press release
What we do: Elections
YEREVAN, 19 March 2007- The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission for the 12 May parliamentary elections in Armenia...
OSCE Centre promotes freedom of assembly in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization
ALMATY, 20 March 2007- A report, presented today at a news conference in Almaty, proposes improvements to legislation and practices on the right to freedom of assembly in Kazakhstan...
OSCE Missions to help Georgian authorities with border management issues
Publishing date: 19 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management
SKOPJE/TBILISI, 19 March 2007- Representatives of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and the country's Border Police will visit Georgia this week to help conduct a study on border management...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports civil society development
Publishing date: 16 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
SKOPJE, 16 March 2007- The OSCE Mission to Skopje launched a small grants programme aimed at supporting the capacity-building of non-governmental organizations active in the area of human rights. Three grant contracts were signed today with local NGOs...
OSCE Office opens anti-corruption Centre in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 16 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
BAKU, 16 March 2007- Fighting corruption and increasing transparency in local government are the main objectives of an Anti-corruption Legal Advocacy Centre (ALAC) that opened in the north-western Azerbaijani city of Sheki today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports police training on public relations
Publishing date: 16 March 2007
SKOPJE, 16 March 2007- Sixteen police officers from all over the country completed today an OSCE-supported training course on media and public relations...
Joint Statement by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
Publishing date: 15 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Minsk Group, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
GENEVA, 14 March 2007- The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Vartan Oskanian, and Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, met in Geneva on March 14 under the aegis of the three Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group...