News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE media representative's office ends Ukrainian series of seminars aiming to improve governmental reporting
Publishing date: 28 July 2006
ODESA, 28 July 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today addressed press secretaries and journalists participating in a two-day training seminar aiming to improve reporting on governmental issues...
OSCE Centre helps train Tajik civil servants to implement gender equality policies
Publishing date: 28 July 2006
KHOROG, 28 July 2006- Raising awareness of gender equality issues among civil servants and providing them with gender analysis tools for their everyday work were the aims of a five-day OSCE-supported training course which ended in Khorog today...
OSCE Office in Baku programme gets clear picture of Azerbaijan's public television
Publishing date: 28 July 2006
BAKU, 28 July 2006- The first part of an OSCE Office programme to help improve Azerbaijan's Public Television (PTV), concluded today with the completion of a study to assess the broadcaster's needs...
OSCE Ambassadors call for dialogue and negotiations in Georgia's conflict zones
Publishing date: 28 July 2006
TBILISI, 28 July 2006- OSCE Permanent Council Chairman, Belgian Ambassador Bertrand de Crombrugghe, today called on the sides in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict to resume constructive dialogue...
OSCE Centre organizes ecological summer camp for young Tajiks
Publishing date: 27 July 2006
KAYRAKKUM, 27 July 2006- Young Tajik environmental activists gathered in Kayrakkum today for the opening of an ecological summer camp, organized by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe. During the 10-day camp, the 60 participants will work together...
OSCE Osh Field Office project spotlights damage to natural resources in southern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 27 July 2006
OSH, 27 July 2006- A regional roundtable to focus the attention of key government officials and local leaders on the misuse of pastures and forests in southern Kyrgyzstan and to develop concrete mechanisms to respond to this growing problem, concluded...
Armenian media situation improved, but more diversity needed, OSCE media watchdog says in new report
Publishing date: 26 July 2006
VIENNA, 26 July 2006- Armenia has made significant progress in improving media legislation, but media pluralism remains limited to the independent, but financially weak, print media, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti...
OSCE helps Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan find ways to share water resources
Publishing date: 26 July 2006
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, 26 July 2006- The first meeting of the recently formed Chu-Talas Rivers Commission, set up to better manage water resources in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, was held today in Issyk-Kul...
Economic information centre to promote investment in southern Kyrgzystan
Publishing date: 25 July 2006
OSH, 26 July 2006- To help three provinces in southern Kyrgyzstan attract foreign and domestic investors, a new Economic Information Dissemination Centre has opened its doors today, established by the OSCE's Osh Field Office. The new centre, which...
New OSCE Moldovan Mission Head commends destruction of offensive weaponry- urges Transdniestria to copy
Publishing date: 25 July 2006
CHISINAU, 25 Jul 2006- The new Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Louis O'Neill, called today on the Transdniestrian authorities to follow the latest Moldovan example and to cut its military capacity. He made his statement at Bulboaca...