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OSCE Mission's Head opens training for minority council representatives in Croatia

Publishing date: 6 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Human rights, National minority issues
SISAK, CROATIA, 6 October 2003- Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Ambassador Peter Semneby yesterday opened the first of a series of training...

OSCE Chair appoints parliamentarians to lead election observation in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia

Publishing date: 6 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Elections
COPENHAGEN, 6 October 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has appointed OSCE PA President Bruce George as his Special Co-ordinator to lead the upcoming OSCE Election Observation Missions in...

OSCE Mission supports refugee return accord between Belgrade and Sarajevo

Publishing date: 6 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
BELGRADE, 6 October 2003- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari, welcomed the agreement on refugee returns, signed today between Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The OSCE Mission...

Joint OSCE workshop in Tashkent tackles money-laundering and the financing of terrorism

Publishing date: 6 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Countering terrorism
TASHKENT, 6 October 2003- Money laundering is a direct threat to both national and international security, therefore international co-operation is essential in combating it, experts heard during a two-day joint OSCE workshop in Tashkent, Uzbekistan...

OSCE Mission announces internship programme in Belgrade

Publishing date: 6 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization
BELGRADE, 6 October 2003- The second generation of 65 interns will tomorrow begin a nine-month placement in the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro, the National Assembly of Serbia and selected ministries of the Serbian government. Supported by...

Uzbek prison officials, NGOs to undergo OSCE training in Poland

Publishing date: 6 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
TASHKENT, 6 October 2003- Representatives from Uzbek prisons, the Ombudman's Office and non-governmental organizations will attend an OSCE training programme in Poland on international prison standards. The training scheme, which starts tomorrow...

Parliamentarians agree to strengthen regional dialogue on socio-economic development

Publishing date: 4 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 4 October 2003- Over the last two days, parliamentarians from throughout south-eastern Europe gathered in Sarajevo to discuss common social and economic development goals, and how regional contact can assist in this endeavour. The inter...

Bombs destroyed under OSCE-supervised disarmament project in Georgia

Publishing date: 3 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
TBILISI, 3 October 2003- Demolition of dangerously unstable bombs under an OSCE project commenced this week at a former military airbase at Shiraki in Eastern Georgia. It signals the next phase of the project for the "Recycling and...

International representatives in Skopje comment on 2002 Census

Publishing date: 2 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, National minority issues
SKOPJE, 2 October 2003- The following is a joint statement by Ambassador Craig Jenness, the Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, Alexis Brouhns, the EU Special Representative, Ambassador Donato Chiarini, the Head...

OSCE trains legal professionals on new Provisional Criminal Codes for Kosovo

Publishing date: 2 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
PRISTINA, 2 October 2003- The OSCE-established Kosovo Judicial Institute (KJI) will host two training sessions this week to introduce Kosovo's legal community to the reforms contained in the new Provisional Criminal Code and...