News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE seminar brings Tajik authorities and NGOs together for prison reform talks
Publishing date: 12 February 2004
DUSHANBE, 12 February 2004- Representatives of more than 30 NGOs, international organizations and the Tajik Government discussed prison reform for this Central Asian state at a three-day seminar that ended today. Initiated by the Tajik...
OSCE/ODIHR deploys 50 long-term observers to monitor Russian presidential election
Publishing date: 12 February 2004
WARSAW/MOSCOW, 12 February 2004- An Election Observation Mission to monitor the presidential election in the Russian Federation on 14 March has been deployed by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...
Property Law implementation in Bosnia and Herzegovina nears completion
Publishing date: 11 February 2004
SARAJEVO, 11 February 2004- The PLIP agencies (OHR, UNHCR and OSCE) announced today in Sarajevo that the implementation of the property law in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is nearing its completion...
OSCE Centre in Almaty to hold workshop on draft environmental information law
Publishing date: 11 February 2004
ALMATY, 11 February 2004- A workshop that will enable environmental non-governmental organizations to discuss the establishment of legal guarantees for access to information on environmental matters will be held in Almaty on 13 February...
OSCE CiO proposes closer co-operation with EU and NATO on Mediterranean issues
Publishing date: 10 February 2004
MUNICH, 11 February 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, urged the OSCE, the European Union and NATO to co-operate more closely on issues related to their Mediterranean partner states...
OSCE Mission to Croatia position on HRT Law
Publishing date: 9 February 2004
ZAGREB, 8 February 2004- The OSCE Mission to Croatia wishes to clarify its position on the current law on Croatian Radio-Television (HRT) following a statement by Social Democratic Party Vice-President Zeljka Antunovic on 5 February...
OSCE Presence calls on government and opposition to draw lessons from 7 February events in Tirana
Publishing date: 9 February 2004
TIRANA, 9 February 2004- The OSCE Presence in Albania deplores the situation that occurred on Saturday, when peaceful anti-government demonstrations by opposition parties spun out of control for a period of time...
OSCE Mission saddened by death of Croatian Serb returnee who lived in a tent
Publishing date: 6 February 2004
ZAGREB, 26 January 2004- The OSCE Mission to Croatia is saddened to learn about the death of 67 year old Croatian Serb returnee Gojko Jasnic from Zimic, Karlovac. His case was one of many referred to the OSCE Mission...
OSCE Centre in Dushanbe opens information point for youth in Garm
Publishing date: 6 February 2004
GARM, 6 February 2004- The OSCE Centre in Dushanbe's Garm Field Office opened an Information Centre for the youth of the Rasht Valley on Thursday, a first of its kind in this remote and mountainous region of Tajikistan. It is equipped with...
OSCE urged to support further European integration efforts of former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Publishing date: 5 February 2004
VIENNA, 5 February 2004- In her speech to the OSCE's Permanent Council, the Foreign Affairs Minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ilinka Mitreva, praised the work of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission in helping to transform...