News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
"Positive spirit" needed to solve problems over Transdniestrian section of Moldova-Ukraine border- OSCE Chairman
Publishing date: 8 March 2006
BRUSSELS, 8 March 2006- Concerned about current problems along the Transdniestrian section of the Moldovan-Ukrainian state border, OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, has instructed the Organization's Mission in Moldova...
OSCE Office launches essay competition for Armenian students on gender issues
Publishing date: 7 March 2006
YEREVAN, 7 March 2006- The role of women in decision-making will be the theme of a student essay competition that will be launched tomorrow by the OSCE Office in Yerevan. Organized in co-operation with the Centre for the Development of Civil Society...
Academy for the training of judges and prosecutors opens in Skopje
Publishing date: 7 March 2006
SKOPJE, 7 March 2006- Justice Minister, Meri Mladenovska-Gjorgjievska, has opened the Academy for the Training of Judges and Prosecutors in Skopje, marking the institutionalisation of continuing education work previously done by...
OSCE to train Russian election observers in Moscow
Publishing date: 6 March 2006
WARSAW, 6 March 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the OSCE Secretariat will train 105 Russian officials this week to participate in future election observation missions. The course, which takes place...
OSCE CiO seriously concerned with the situation in Belarus
Publishing date: 6 March 2006
BRUSSELS, 3 March 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht is concerned about the continued detention of four prominent domestic observers in Belarus, as well as the physical aggression and detention yesterday of a....
OSCE Centre co-organizes Canada study trip for Kyrgyz officials to learn about fighting money-laundering
Publishing date: 6 March 2006
BISHKEK, 6 March 2006- Ways of fighting money-laundering and the financing of terrorism is the focus of a study trip to Ottawa by a group of Kyrgyz Members of Parliament and representatives of the country's Financial Intelligence Service and the...
OSCE media watchdog asks Azerbaijan President to initiate law reform as editor is jailed for libel
Publishing date: 3 March 2006
VIENNA, 3 March 2006- The OSCE Media Freedom Representative Miklos Haraszti has written to Azerbaijan's President, Ilham Aliyev, reminding him of his call a year ago for a moratorium on the use of criminal defamation against the media. In his letter...
OSCE Secretary General visits Bishkek to discuss developments in Kyrgyzstan with President
Publishing date: 3 March 2006
BISHKEK, 3 March 2006- Beginning a two-day visit to Kyrgyzstan on Friday, OSCE Secretary General, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, held high-level meetings with Kyrgyz Government and Parliamentary officials. The discussions focused on the development...
OSCE Chairman welcomes Presidential initiative to address election conduct in Skopje
Publishing date: 3 March 2006
BRUSSELS, 3 March 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, has welcomed the initiative by President Branko Crvenkovski to launch a series of roundtable election discussions in Skopje. The roundtable held yesterday...
OSCE's election watchdog body concerned at further election-related arrests in Belarus
Publishing date: 2 March 2006
WARSAW, 2 March 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is concerned about recent election-related events in Belarus, where a presidential candidate, his supporters and four civic activists have been detained...