News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Permanent Council bids farewell to Secretary General Jan Kubis
Publishing date: 23 June 2005
VIENNA, 23 June 2005- The 55 States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe bade farewell to the outgoing OSCE Secretary General, Jan Kubis, at a meeting of the Permanent Council here on Thursday...
OSCE Chairman saddened by death of Russian member of Panel of Eminent Persons
Publishing date: 23 June 2005
LJUBLJANA, 23 June 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, expressed sadness on Thursday at the death of Ambassador Nikolay Afanasievsky, a Russian member of the Panel of Eminent Persons appointed by the OSCE...
OSCE Mission and Serbian Interior Ministry hold regional conference on combating organized crime and illegal trade in drugs
Publishing date: 23 June 2005
BELGRADE, 23 June 2005- Developing better co-operation between police services in the Balkans to fight transnational organized crime and illegal trade in drugs was the aim of a conference that ended in Belgrade today...
OSCE Mission in Skopje welcomes draft law on broadcasting
Publishing date: 23 June 2005
SKOPJE, 23 June 2005- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje today welcomed the draft law on broadcasting put forth by the Government, which covers the regulation of the broadcast industry and the functioning of the public service...
OSCE Mission to BiH reaches out to citizens through the "Access to Justice" campaign
Publishing date: 22 June 2005
SARAJEVO, 22 June 2005- A country-wide public awareness campaign to enable citizens, particularly returnees, in Bosnia and Herzegovina to understand how to access social services was launched today in Sarajevo...
Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro to visit Bujanovac
Publishing date: 22 June 2005
BELGRADE, 22 June 2005- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari, will tomorrow visit the municipality of Bujanovac in southern Serbia. During the visit...
OSCE Chairman says more action needed on curbing small arms and light weapons, securing ammunition stockpiles
Publishing date: 21 June 2005
VIENNA, 21 June 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, said on Tuesday that the Organization should devote more attention to curbing the spread of small arms and light weapons and securing stockpiles of...
Media freedom on the Internet in Central Asian countries threatened, says OSCE Representative
Publishing date: 20 June 2005
AMSTERDAM, 20 June 2005- Governmental over-regulation and content censorship are common in Central Asian countries and pose a serious danger to new media in the emerging internet scene, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti...
OSCE Chairman repeats calls for an investigation into Andijan events following OSCE/ODIHR report
Publishing date: 20 June 2005
LJUBLJANA, 20 June 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office has reiterated his call for a credible, independent and international investigation into the events in Andijan following a report from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: ODIHR final report stresses need for political will to improve electoral process
Publishing date: 17 June 2005
SKOPJE/WARSAW, 17 June 2005- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has published the final report of its Election Observation Mission to the 2005 Municipal Elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The report...