News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
New Head of OSCE Office in Podgorica to meet senior politicians
Publishing date: 25 January 2005
PODGORICA, 25 January 2005- The newly appointed Head of the Podgorica Office of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Paraschiva Badescu, will meet a number of senior political officials as part of a programme to familiarise herself...
OSCE Almaty seminar focuses on migration management
Publishing date: 24 January 2005
ALMATY, 24 January 2005- An international seminar on the economic, environmental, security and humanitarian aspects of migration among the OSCE's 55 participating States opened in Almaty today. More than 200 representatives from NGOs, academics...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office to visit NATO Headquarters on Wednesday
Publishing date: 24 January 2005
VIENNA, 24 January 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, will visit NATO Headquarters and address the North Atlantic Council in Brussels on Wednesday, 26 January. There will be a photo opportunity at 09:50 in...
OSCE Chairman attends inauguration of Ukraine's new President
Publishing date: 24 January 2005
KYIV, 24 January 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, who attended the inauguration of Ukraine's new President Viktor Yushchenko on Sunday, underlined the OSCE's high expectations for the future...
OSCE Chairman to attend Ukraine's Presidential inauguration
Publishing date: 21 January 2005
LJUBLJANA, 21 January 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, is to attend Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's inauguration on Sunday, 23 January 2005...
OSCE/ODIHR deploys election observers to Kyrgyz Republic
Publishing date: 18 January 2005
WARSAW/BISHKEK, 18 January 2005- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has deployed an Election Observation Mission for the 27 February parliamentary election in Kyrgyzstan. These will be the first parliamentary elections...
OSCE Chairman participates in Ministerial Troika meeting
Publishing date: 14 January 2005
VIENNA, 14 January 2005- On the second day of his visit to Vienna, Dr Dimitrij Rupel, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia and the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, chaired a meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Troika. Participants...
OSCE Mission assists domestic election monitoring in Croatia
Publishing date: 13 January 2005
ZAGREB, 13 January 2005- The OSCE Mission to Croatia has donated approximately 21,000 euros to assist GONG, Croatia's leading election monitoring non-governmental organization, to observe this Sunday's second round of voting in Croatia's presidential...
OSCE Mission welcomes investigation of fatal shooting in southern Serbia
Publishing date: 13 January 2005
BELGRADE, 13 January 2005- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari, has welcomed the decision of the Serbian Government to establish a multi-ethnic commission to investigate the death of an ethnic Albanian...
OSCE Chairman calls for revitalisation, reform and rebalancing of Organization
Publishing date: 13 January 2005
VIENNA, 13 January 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, called for the "revitalisation, reform and rebalancing" of the 55-nation security Organization on Thursday...