News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Kosovo Mission to transfer election operations to local body
Publishing date: 8 August 2003
PRISTINA, 8 August 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo (OMiK) will begin to transfer some of its operational responsibilities for elections to a permanent Secretariat of the Central Election Commission (CEC), while maintaining an advisory role within...
OSCE and Kyrgyzstan sign agreement on implementing first major police assistance programme in Central Asia
Publishing date: 7 August 2003
BISHKEK, 7 August 2003- The Kyrgyz Government has signed a key agreement today with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, launching a comprehensive OSCE police assistance programme aimed at establishing community policing, improving the quality of criminal...
OSCE Mission welcomes steps towards administrative unification of schools in Herzegovina-Neretva
Publishing date: 6 August 2003
SARAJEVO, 7 August, 2003- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina welcomes the issuance by the Minister of Education of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of an instruction on administrative unification of the Mostar Old Gymnasium and the so-called 'two...
OSCE Kosovo Mission builds a new health centre in Gjilan/Gnjilane
Publishing date: 6 August 2003
PRISTINA, 6 August 2003- Construction of a primary health care centre in Gjilan/Gnjilane municipality serving the Serbian and Albanian communities of Gornji Livoc/Livoq i Eperm has been completed with the funding provided by the OSCE Mission in...
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina urges return of teachers
Publishing date: 5 August 2003
SARAJEVO, 5 August 2003- The Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH, Robert M. Beecroft, urged education ministries and school directors to take extra steps to encourage returnee teachers to apply for teaching vacancies, which are being issued this week...
OSCE Mission calls for amendments to Georgian election code to enhance credibility of parliamentary election
Publishing date: 4 August 2003
TBILISI, 4 August 2003- The OSCE Mission to Georgia expresses its concern that deadlines set through broad agreement of Georgian political parties in early July for the adoption of amendments to the Unified Election Code have not yet been met. The...
Serious efforts needed to restore public confidence, says ODIHR report on Armenian parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 1 August 2003
WARSAW, 1 August 2003- Serious efforts must be made to improve the legal framework and conduct of elections in Armenia if public confidence in the electoral process there is to be restored, says the final report on the 25 May parliamentary elections...
OSCE brings young people together across Balkan borders
Publishing date: 1 August 2003
PEJE/PEC, 1 August 2003- An OSCE-sponsored youth project will bring together young people from Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia for a nine-day summer camp aimed at fostering reconciliation. Thirty young activists of...
OSCE Presence in Albania welcomes Assembly vote on election commission
Publishing date: 1 August 2003
TIRANA, 1 August 2003- The OSCE Presence in Albania welcomes the vote taken in yesterday's extraordinary session of the Assembly, which elected Mr Dode Prenga as a new member of the Central Election Commission (CEC). After the vote, the Head of...
OSCE publishes study on media in multilingual societies
Publishing date: 31 July 2003
VIENNA, 31 July 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, today presented to the OSCE participating States a booklet entitled Media in Multilingual Societies, a compilation of five country reports. The publication...