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OSCE Centre in Ashgabad trains more Turkmen customs officials in computer skills

Publishing date: 29 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Border management
ASHGABAD, 29 August 2005- Twenty Turkmen customs officials have just completed a three-month computer course and have received certificates of completion from the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad.

OSCE Centre supports Kazakhstan's efforts to join pollution control protocol

Publishing date: 26 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ALMATY, 26 August 2005- Kazakhstan's technical and legislative capacities to accede to the Kyiv Protocol on pollutant release will be assessed at a meeting of government officials, national and international experts and civil society representatives...

OSCE releases Annual Report on 2004 activities in four official languages

Publishing date: 26 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 26 August 2005- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world's largest regional security arrangement, today released its Annual Report for 2004 in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

OSCE media freedom representative concerned over new criminal libel case involving President of Belarus

Publishing date: 22 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Decriminalization of defamation, Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 22 August 2005- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, has voiced his concern over a new criminal investigation involving alleged libel of the President of Belarus in animated Internet cartoons.

OSCE Secretary General visits Kosovo, urges dialogue as way forward

Publishing date: 12 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
PRISTINA, 12 August 2005- OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut discussed the future role of the OSCE in Kosovo with the international administration, Kosovo's leaders and representatives of the Kosovo Serb community.

Swedish diplomat to head OSCE Office in Minsk

Publishing date: 12 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
MINSK, 12 August 2005- Åke Peterson, the former Swedish Ambassador to Ukraine, has been appointed Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk and is expected to take up his post on 29 August.

OSCE Mission welcomes formation of Kosovo Press Council

Publishing date: 10 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 10 August 2005- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo welcomes today's signing of the Press Council statute by print media representatives as an important measure in ending regulation of Kosovo's print media by the Temporary Media Commissioner.

OSCE Office in Baku welcomes removal of opposition leaders' conviction records

Publishing date: 9 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization
BAKU, 9 August 2005- The OSCE Office in Baku welcomed today the recent decisions of the courts of Azerbaijan to delete the criminal records of prominent opposition leaders for criminal offences...

OSCE Office condemns attacks against party offices in Azerbaijan

Publishing date: 9 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BAKU, 9 August 2005- The OSCE Office in Baku condemned today the recent violent attacks against members of the Popular Front Party and its offices in Baku and Nakhchivan following the detention of opposition politician Ruslan Bashirli...

OSCE Centre supports health and safety camp for young Turkmens

Publishing date: 4 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Democratization, Education
ASHGABAD, 4 August 2005- A one-week youth summer camp focusing on health and safety issues was held with support of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad in the Kopet-Dag mountains near Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabad..