News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Water as a security issue- OSCE Secretary General encourages co-operation in message to Tajikistan forum
Publishing date: 29 August 2003
DUSHANBE, 29 August 2003- OSCE participant States are maintaining a close watch on the potential for insecurity posed by competition over water resources, the Secretary General of the OSCE will inform an international conference in Tajikistan...
International organizations in Skopje welcome release of hostages
Publishing date: 28 August 2003
SKOPJE, 28 August 2003- Joint Statement by the Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitoring Mission to Skopje Craig Jenness, Office of the EU Special Representative, Alexis Brouhns, the US Ambassador to Skopje, Lawrence Butler and NATO Ambassador...
OSCE media watchdog expresses concern to Ivanov over Russian journalist jailed for libel
Publishing date: 27 August 2003
VIENNA, 27 August 2003- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has written to the Russian Foreign Minister raising the case of a prominent Russian journalist who was sentenced to one year in a labour camp for alleged libel...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative calls off visit to Minsk
Publishing date: 26 August 2003
VIENNA, 26 August 2003- The OSCE's media watchdog, Freimut Duve, has been forced to cancel a visit to Belarus, planned for 1 and 2 September, because the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not given him and his senior adviser visas...
OSCE Mission condemns recent violence in southern Serbia
Publishing date: 25 August 2003
BELGRADE, 25 August 2003- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari, has condemned the series of violent incidents which took place in southern Serbia over the last two weeks, including two explosions...
OSCE Mission helps train Armenian judges in new Criminal Code
Publishing date: 25 August 2003
YEREVAN, 25 August 2003- Judges from all levels of the Armenian court system have been given training, jointly organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan, to improve their understanding of the new Criminal Code, which came into force on 1 August...
OSCE Office supports project on local democracy in Belarus
Publishing date: 25 August 2003
MINSK, 25 August 2003- A delegation of six representatives from Belarusian local authorities today began a study trip to Lithuania. The five-day trip is a part of an OSCE Office in Minsk project on Local Democracy and Assistance to Local...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office ready to assist Georgia in appointing Chairperson of Central Election Commission
Publishing date: 23 August 2003
TBILISI, 23 August 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, on 22 August 2003, declared the Chair's readiness to submit candidates for the position of the Chairperson of the Central Election...
OSCE Representative describes shooting incident on Armenia, Azerbaijan border
Publishing date: 22 August 2003
TBILISI, 22 August 2003- Following an incident on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan on 19 August, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office issued the following statement on Friday: On 19 August 2003, a monitoring of...
Media commissioner warns Kosovo dailies over inaccurate reporting on violence
Publishing date: 22 August 2003
PRISTINA, 22 August 2003- The Temporary Media Commission has monitored coverage in recent days of the attack on Serb children at Gorazhdevac with particular attention to the factual accuracy of news reports and commentary. At all times...