News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Europe's domestic observer groups develop common approach to election monitoring, urge full access to entire electoral process
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
ZAGREB, 1 July 2003- Domestic observer groups from across Europe have developed a common approach to monitoring elections and called on states to ensure full access of observers to all stages of the electoral process...
Croatian representatives study Portuguese community policing methods
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
ZAGREB, 1 July 2003- A central Croatian police chief and a Croatian journalist have just returned from a two-weeks' training course in Portugal focused on its well-developed community policing programmes and the way media and police interact...
New publication voices concerns of Kosovo's minorities
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
PRISTINA, 1 July 2003- Ensuring that the voices of the many minority groups in Kosovo are better heard is the goal of a new booklet published by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)...
OSCE to hold conference on effects of globalization
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
VIENNA, 1 July 2003- Benefits, risks and challenges of globalization will be the focus of a two-day international conference to be held by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in the Vienna Hofburg Conference Centre on 3 and 4 July...
Roundtables on legal ethics conducted in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 30 June 2003
ASHGABAD, 30 June 2003- The OSCE Centre in Ashgabad, the American Bar Association's Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) and the recently created Turkmen Young Lawyers Association (TYLA) have conducted a second roundtable...
OSCE Mission Head lays out five conditions for the rule of law
Publishing date: 30 June 2003
BELGRADE, 30 June 2003- In an article published this week in Serbia's Nin magazine, the OSCE Head of Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari outlined the importance of the rule of law as a cornerstone of a democratic society...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office will travel to Central Asia to keep up dialogue with participating States
Publishing date: 30 June 2003
THE HAGUE, 30 June 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, plans to pay a week-long visit to Central Asia, taking in four of the five OSCE participating States in the region...
OSCE trains Armenian police on countering domestic violence
Publishing date: 27 June 2003
YEREVAN, 27 June 2003- An OSCE-organized training programme to enable Armenian police officers to more efficiently combat domestic violence began this week in the country's capital, Yerevan. "Domestic violence is an infringement of a person's...
OSCE Security Conference considers fresh options
Publishing date: 27 June 2003
VIENNA, 26 June 2003- The OSCE's first-ever Annual Security Review Conference closed yesterday with its main aim successfully met- that of identifying a range of practical options for the Organization to address the new threats and challenges to...
International agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina warn that housing officials will fine double occupants
Publishing date: 26 June 2003
SARAJEVO, 26 June 2003- The international agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina involved in the Property Law Implementation Plan- the Office of the High Representative, the OSCE Mission, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...