News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to announce "Persons of the Year" at reception tomorrow
Publishing date: 12 December 2006
BELGRADE, 12 December 2006- The OSCE Mission to Serbia will announce the winners of its "Persons of the Year" awards in Belgrade tomorrow. Organized for the first time...
OSCE Office helps present report on Armenia's implementation of the Aarhus Convention
Publishing date: 12 December 2006
YEREVAN, 12 December 2006- A report on the implementation of the Aarhus environmental convention and activities undertaken in this respect was presented in Yerevan today with the support of the OSCE Office...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports development of Parliamentary Channel
Publishing date: 12 December 2006
SKOPJE, 12 December 2006- Members of Parliament, appointed to the Council of the Parliamentary Channel, completed a seminar today that will help them make decisions regarding the structure, programming and budget of the channel...
OSCE, UN and Kosovo institutions launch campaign to improve land governance and address informal settlements
Publishing date: 12 December 2006
PRISTINA, 12 December 2006- A joint campaign on urban upgrading and informal settlements was launched today by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme and Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government...
OSCE satisfied that private broadcaster in Azerbaijan resumes transmission
Publishing date: 12 December 2006
BAKU/VIENNA, 12 December 2006- The OSCE Office in Baku and the Organization's Representative on Freedom of the Media have welcomed yesterday's decision to allow Azerbaijan's private TV and radio broadcaster ANS to resume transmission...
OSCE Mission organizes discussion in Croatian Parliament of voter registration lists
Publishing date: 11 December 2006
ZAGREB, 11 December 2006- The need to have an accurate, comprehensive and centralized voter registration list was discussed in the Parliament in Zagreb today...
Statement by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs on the 10 December referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh
Publishing date: 11 December 2006
MOSCOW/PARIS/WASHINGTON, 11 December 2006- The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of France, Yury Merzlyakov of Russia, and Matthew Bryza of the United States, have issued the following statement today...
OSCE Mission co-sponsors anti-corruption campaign in Kosovo
Publishing date: 11 December 2006
PRISTINA, 11 December 2006- A public information campaign calling on people to help increase transparency and fight corruption was launched today in Kosovo by the OSCE Mission, the UN Development Programme and the Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency...
OSCE Centre helps Turkmenistan train law-enforcement officials in border management
Publishing date: 11 December 2006
ASHGABAD, 11 December 2006- Practical border management was the focus of a course organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad and Turkmenistan's Foreign Ministry...
OSCE Chairman concerned over constitutional referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh
Publishing date: 11 December 2006
BRUSSELS, 11 December 2006- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, said the OSCE will not recognize the referendum on a draft constitution held on Sunday. "Such a referendum is counter-productive...