News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Transdniestrians step up "linguistic cleansing" with orders to empty Moldovan-language school
Publishing date: 20 July 2004
CHISINAU, 20 July 2004- The crisis continues to deepen in the campaign against Moldovan schools teaching the state language in Latin script in the breakaway region of Transdniestria. Local authorities there continue what is termed "linguistic...
OSCE Centre in Tashkent organizes roundtable for farmers and lawyers in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 19 July 2004
TASHKENT, 19 July 2004- The OSCE Centre in Tashkent (CiT) is to hold a two-day roundtable on 20 and 21 July entitled "Providing Legal Assistance to Farmers", aimed at lawyers and farmers from every region of Uzbekistan...
OSCE Centre trains journalists in Uzbekistan's Karakalpak Autonomous Republic
Publishing date: 18 July 2004
TASHKENT, 18 July 2004- The second of a series of training courses for local journalists from the Karakalpak Autonomous Republic in Uzbekistan ended today. The event was organized by the OSCE Centre in Tashkent...
OSCE/ODIHR publishes handbook on women's participation in elections
Publishing date: 16 July 2004
WARSAW/VIENNA, 16 July 2004- Europe's leading election observation agency, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, has just published a handbook for monitoring women's participation in elections. The handbook is a part of the...
OSCE: Linguistic cleansing underway in Transdniestria
Publishing date: 15 July 2004
THE HAGUE/CHISINAU, 15 July 2004- "Today's forced closure of the Moldovan School in Tiraspol is nothing less than linguistic cleansing," the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Rolf Ekeus, said on Thursday...
EU External Relations Commissioner Patten praises level of co-operation with OSCE
Publishing date: 15 July 2004
VIENNA, 15 July 2004- Addressing the OSCE Permanent Council today, the EU's Commissioner for External Relations, Christopher Patten, painted a picture of successful EU/OSCE co-operation across a broad range of issues which brought into focus...
OSCE Mission Head calls for further efforts to stabilize southern Serbia
Publishing date: 15 July 2004
BELGRADE, 15 July 2004- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari, called on all local leaders in Serbia on Thursday to remain fully engaged in the stabilization process in the south of the country...
OSCE Presence donates computer equipment to Albanian Court for Serious Crimes
Publishing date: 15 July 2004
TIRANA, 15 July 2004- The OSCE Presence in Albania delivered 19 desktop computers with monitors and three laser printers to the Court for Serious Crimes, an Albanian institution which became operational at the beginning of 2004. Yesterday's delivery...
OSCE Chairman stresses need for peaceful solution in Georgian-Ossetian conflict
Publishing date: 14 July 2004
SOFIA, 14 July 2004- The OSCE's Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, stressed the need to find a peaceful solution to the Georgian-Ossetian conflict...
Reform and co-operation key to OSCE success, EU Council President says
Publishing date: 14 July 2004
VIENNA, 14 July 2004- Enhanced co-operation between the EU and the OSCE in fighting terrorism and trafficking and promoting tolerance, as well as over regional issues and reform of the Organization, were raised today in an address to the OSCE...