News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Young leaders discuss inter-ethnic co-operation at OSCE Skopje Mission seminar
Publishing date: 7 July 2003
SKOPJE, 7 July 2003- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje is hosting a conference for young leaders in Ohrid from 7 to 9 July. The event brings together 22 participants from each of four OSCE-organized youth leadership conferences...
OSCE CiO condemns bomb attacks in Moscow
Publishing date: 7 July 2003
ALMATY, 7 July 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, today condemned weekend suicide bomb attacks at a rock concert in Moscow. "I utterly deplore the attacks in Moscow on Saturday which cost...
OSCE/ODIHR assists Belarus with reforming Soviet-era population registration
Publishing date: 7 July 2003
MINSK, 7 July 2003- International and Belarusian experts meet in Minsk today to discuss ways to reform Belarus' population registration system. With this meeting the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), together...
OSCE States urged to stimulate conditions to reap benefits of globalization
Publishing date: 4 July 2003
VIENNA, 4 July 2003- The first OSCE conference on the effects of globalization ended today in Vienna with calls by participants for the Organization and its participating States to further develop good governance and democratic institutions...
OSCE holds roundtable on civil procedural code in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 4 July 2003
ASHGABAD, 4 July 2003- The OSCE Centre in Ashgabad recently held a second roundtable on the draft of a civil procedural code for Turkmenistan. The series of roundtables is aimed at assisting Turkmenistan in bringing the country's civil legislation...
OSCE holds training seminars on fight against human trafficking in northern Tajikistan
Publishing date: 4 July 2003
DUSHANBE/KHUJAND, 3 July 2003- A four-month awareness-raising campaign to inform the population about the problem of human trafficking recently ended in Tajikistan's northern region of Sughd...
OSCE Mission condemns discrimination against Vukovar boy
Publishing date: 3 July 2003
ZAGREB, 3 July 2003- The OSCE Mission to Croatia today joined senior Croatian officials in condemning a discriminatory decision barring a Croatian Serb boy in Vukovar from playing at a football tournament on the basis of his ethnic origins...
"Positive" textbooks ready in time for the new school year in Bosnia
Publishing date: 3 July 2003
SARAJEVO, 3 July, 2003- Students in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will return to revised national subject textbooks in classrooms in September, thanks to the efforts of the re-established Textbook Review Commission this spring. The Commission, which...
Croatian President opens international conference on minority integration in southeastern Europe and the Baltics
Publishing date: 2 July 2003
ZAGREB, 2 July 2003- Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on Wednesday opened a one-day international conference on "Minority Integration in Southeast Europe and the Baltic States," organized by the OSCE Mission to Croatia...
OSCE Mission to help improve Serbia's voter register
Publishing date: 2 July 2003
BELGRADE, 2 July 2003- The OSCE and the Serbian Government have agreed to work together to improve Serbia's voter register...