News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Belgrade Mission hosts meeting on institutional response to terrorism
Publishing date: 29 March 2006
BELGRADE, 29 March 2006- Ways institutions can respond to terrorism is the focus of a meeting of representatives of security sector institutions which began today in Vrsac. Participants of the two-day event...
OSCE Chairman urges Kyrgyz authorities to prioritize fight against human trafficking and money laundering
Publishing date: 29 March 2006
BISHKEK, 29 March 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, has urged Kyrgyzstan's authorities to make the fight against human trafficking and money laundering a top priority...
OSCE Centre organizes trip for Kazakhstani officals to learn about combating money-laundering, financing of terrorism
Publishing date: 29 March 2006
ALMATY, 29 March 2006- A group of Kazakh Members of Parliament and representatives of the General Prosecutors Office and the NGO Forum of Entrepreneurs, visited Latvia and Russia to learn about ways to fight money-laundering and financing of terrorism...
OSCE workshop in Zagreb to focus on better ways to control sale of small arms and light weapons
Publishing date: 28 March 2006
VIENNA, 27 March, 2006- Croatia this week plays host to a two-day OSCE workshop on controlling the sale and export (brokering) of sale of small arms and light weapons (SALW) in south-eastern Europe and the Caucasus. It will be held near Zagreb...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned over treatment of journalists covering demonstrations in Belarus
Publishing date: 28 March 2006
VIENNA, 28 March 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media said today that the detentions of Belarusian and foreign journalists in the aftermath of the presidential election was an infringement of OSCE commitments to safeguard free...
OSCE Skopje Mission supports municipal committees for inter-community relations
Publishing date: 28 March 2006
SKOPJE, 28 March 2006- At a workshop held in Skopje today, some 150 participants defined the role municipal committees for inter-community relations can play in the country's mixed ethnic municipalities. They also agreed upon several concrete options...
Ukrainian elections free and fair, consolidating democratic breakthrough
Publishing date: 27 March 2006
KYIV, 27 March 2006- The 26 March parliamentary elections in Ukraine further consolidated the breakthrough in the conduct of a democratic election process that began less than a year and a half ago. Overall, fundamental civil and political rights...
OSCE Chairman Karel De Gucht welcomes free and fair conduct of elections in Ukraine
Publishing date: 27 March 2006
BRUSSELS, 27 March 2006- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, has expressed his satisfaction over the conduct of the 26 March parliamentary elections in Ukraine...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office encourages Kazakhstan to move ahead on further political reforms
Publishing date: 27 March 2006
ASTANA, 27 March 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, has described Kazakhstan's bid for the Chairmanship of the Organization in 2009 as a challenge and an opportunity for the OSCE and for Kazakhstan. Without...
OSCE, UNHCR and EC reiterate support for implementation of Sarajevo Declaration on refugees
Publishing date: 27 March 2006
BELGRADE, 27 March 2006- Heads of the EC Delegations, UNHCR and OSCE Missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro met in Belgrade today to discuss the implementation of the Sarajevo Ministerial Declaration on Refugee Return....