News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR issues its final report on elections in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 2 February 2006
WARSAW, 2 February 2006- The OSCE's elections body, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), has issued its final report on the 6 November 2005 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan. The report contains...
Irish official named new OSCE Senior Police Adviser
Publishing date: 1 February 2006
VIENNA, 1 February 2006- The OSCE Secretary General, Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, announced today the appointment of Kevin Carty from Ireland as the Organization's new Senior Police Advisor...
OSCE Presence and Albanian Interior Ministry organize meeting on voter list reform
Publishing date: 1 February 2006
TIRANA, 1 February 2006- Reform of voter list compilation was the focus of a roundtable organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania and the Albanian Interior Ministry. Participants found that a decentralized model of preparing voter lists...
OSCE organizes meeting in Almaty to discuss Central Asia migration issues
Publishing date: 31 January 2006
ALMATY, 31 January 2006- Migration issues in Central Asia are the focus of a two-day OSCE regional workshop which opened today in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE economic and environmental activities and...
OSCE Skopje Mission supports first aid training course for border police
Publishing date: 30 January 2006
SKOPJE, 30 January 2006- Improving the first aid skills of border police officers is the aim of a three-week training course which starts today at the Military Hospital in Skopje. Officers from each of country's 30 border police stations...
OSCE and Yad Vashem publish guidelines for teachers to commemorate Holocaust victims
Publishing date: 27 January 2006
BRUSSELS/JERUSALEM, 27 January 2006- Marking the first international Day for Holocaust remembrance, Yad Vashem and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights have published guidelines for educators on commemoration for Holocaust...
Chairman says all sides in southern Caucasus showing will for solution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Publishing date: 26 January 2006
MOSCOW, 26 January 2006- Concluding his first visit to the southern Caucasus, OSCE Chairman-in-Office Karel De Gucht held discussions in Baku with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and the representative...
ODIHR starts observation for Ukrainian parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 25 January 2006
WARSAW/KYIV, 25 January 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has established an election observation mission for the 26 March parliamentary elections in Ukraine. This follows an invitation from the Ukrainian authorities...
Chairman says OSCE playing role of honest broker in southern Caucasus
Publishing date: 25 January 2006
YEREVAN, 25 January 2006- On the first leg of his visit to the southern Caucasus, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, held discussions with Armenian President Robert Kocharian, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, and...
OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro offers condolences to families of train accident victims
Publishing date: 24 January 2006
BELGRADE, 24 January 2006- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro offers its sincerest condolences to the people of Montenegro and the families of the victims of yesterday's train derailment at Bioce, near Podgorica.