News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE's office in Ukraine organizes training seminar on role of business in the community
Publishing date: 23 June 2006
KHARKIV, 23 June 2006- An OSCE-led training seminar to show business leaders how they can help strengthen the community opened today in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv...
OSCE Centre organizes meeting that reviews electoral reform in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 23 June 2006
BISHKEK, 23 June 2006- Kyrgyzstan has made some progress towards meeting OSCE election commitments during presidential and local elections in 2005 and parliamentary by-elections in 2006. However, the country's authorities still need...
OSCE Chairman visits economic projects in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict and calls for greater co-operation on security
Publishing date: 23 June 2006
TBILISI, 23 June 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, visited several economic rehabilitation projects today in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, as part of a two-day visit to Georgia...
OSCE to hold workshop on media reporting techniques for journalists from Kosovo and Serbia proper
Publishing date: 22 June 2006
VIENNA, 22 June 2006- The Chairman of the OSCE Permanent Council, Ambassador Bertrand de Crombrugghe, will tomorrow open a one-day media workshop for journalist from Kosovo and Serbia proper. The event is an initiative of...
Montenegro welcomed onto OSCE Permanent Council as 56th participating State
Publishing date: 22 June 2006
VIENNA, 22 June 2006- Newly independent Montenegro today became the 56th State to take its seat as an independent country at the OSCE Permanent Council, the Organization's main negotiating and decision-taking body. The last state to join was Andorra...
OSCE Centre, Tajik Interior Ministry open facility to store and destroy small arms and light weapons
Publishing date: 22 June 2006
DUSHANBE, 22 June 2006- The OSCE Centre in Dushanbe and the Tajik Interior Ministry today opened a storage and destruction facility for small arms and light weapons (SALW) in Dushanbe. Located at...
OSCE media watchdog notes improvements in Armenian media legislation, calls for more pluralism
Publishing date: 21 June 2006
YEREVAN, 21 June 2006- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said today that Armenia has made significant progress in improving media legislation, but actual media pluralism remained limited to the print media...
OSCE Centre in Ashgabad reiterates confidence in staff
Publishing date: 21 June 2006
ASHGABAD, 21 June 2006- Following recent press reports mentioning the name of a staff member of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad, the Head of the Centre wishes to reiterate his full confidence in the staff of the Centre...
OSCE Office in Baku trains journalists on media management
Publishing date: 20 June 2006
BAKU, 20 June 2006- The OSCE Office in Baku has held a training session on media management for about 20 journalists, editors-in-chief and owners of different regional media outlets in Azerbaijan...
OSCE Centre promotes public discussion on media reform in Kazakhstan with second roundtable
Publishing date: 20 June 2006
ASTANA, 20 June 2006- A roundtable, jointly organized here by the OSCE Centre in Almaty, has been looking at the legal aspects of mass media activity and the issues of libel and defamation in Kazakhstan....