News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office organizes meeting on response to natural disasters in southern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 14 March 2006
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 14 March 2006- Ways of dealing with disasters in southern Kyrgyzstan and the National emergency plan will be the focus of a meeting in Osh on 17 March. The event, organized with the financial support from the OSCE Field Office in Osh...
ODIHR to assess parliamentary elections in Italy
Publishing date: 13 March 2006
WARSAW, 13 March 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, ODIHR, has deployed an expert assessment mission for the 9 and 10 April parliamentary elections in Italy. This follows an invitation from the Italian Foreign Ministry...
OSCE Office helps open Aarhus environmental information Centre in Armenia's Tavush province
Publishing date: 13 March 2006
YERAVAN, 13 March 2006- The OSCE Office in Yerevan has supported the opening of an Aarhus public environmental information Centre in the capital of Armenia's Tavush province, Idjevan. "The Centre will promote...
OSCE Centre to hold meeting on draft law on combating money-laundering and financing of terrorism
Publishing date: 13 March 2006
ALMATY, 13 March 2006- The OSCE Centre in Almaty will organize a roundtable discussion of the Kazakh draft law on combating money-laundering and the financing of terrorism, in Astana on 16 March. The event...
OSCE Chairman regrets death of Milosevic could mean no closure for victims
Publishing date: 11 March 2006
SALZBURG, 11 March 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, said today he regretted that the death of the former Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, would likely mean no conclusion to his trial for crimes against...
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs urge Armenia and Azerbaijan to prepare their respective publics "for peace, not for war"
Publishing date: 9 March 2006
WASHINGTON, D.C., 9 March 2006- The three Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which deals with the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, have issued a statement regretting the lack of forward movement in negotiations and calling upon Armenia and Azerbaijan...
OSCE Mission presents manual on domestic violence for Kosovo's social workers
Publishing date: 9 March 2006
PRISTINA, 9 March 2006- A manual that will help social workers better assist victims of domestic violence was today presented by Amb. Werner Wnendt, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, to Ibrahim Selmanaj, PISG Minister of Labor and Social Welfare...
OSCE Skopje Mission donates translation equipment to promote inter-ethnic dialogue
Publishing date: 9 March 2006
SKOPJE, 9 March 2006- Ensuring a greater participation by local citizens in the activities of Cucer Sandevo is the aim of the decision by the OSCE Spillover Monitoring Mission to Skopje to donate equipment for simultaneous translation, to the...
OSCE clarifies news agency stories on visit to Guantanamo
Publishing date: 9 March 2006
VIENNA, 9 March 2006- An OSCE Spokesperson responded today to several misleading news agency stories about the visit of a delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE to the detention centre at the US naval base of Guantanamo. The stories...
OSCE media watchdog calls on Romania to drop leak cases against journalists
Publishing date: 8 March 2006
VIENNA, 8 March 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklós Haraszti, has written to Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, urging authorities to do everything in their power to drop charges against two journalists...