News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Bosnia High Representative Ashdown concerned about risk of economic crisis
Publishing date: 4 June 2003
VIENNA, 4 June 2003- Lord Ashdown, the High Representative and European Union Special Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), said on Wednesday he was seriously concerned about the risk of economic crisis in the country...
Chair-in-Office De Hoop Scheffer to address 12th OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session in Rotterdam
Publishing date: 3 June 2003
COPENHAGEN, 3 June 2003- From 5 to 9 July 2003 more than three hundred parliamentarians from the 55 OSCE participating States will gather on the premises of the Doelen Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for the Twelfth Annual Session...
OSCE Mission awards media prize to four Bosnia and Herzegovina journalists
Publishing date: 3 June 2003
SARAJEVO, 3 June 2003- Four journalists today received the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina media award, for their outstanding coverage of education issues. The media awards were set up to encourage journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
OSCE Mission supports reform of local self-government
Publishing date: 3 June 2003
BELGRADE, 3 June 2003- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro today held a co-ordination meeting on local self-government reform in Serbia. All participants at the meeting agreed on the need to implement the law on local self-government...
OSCE Mission and Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights reject contradiction over tenancy rights figures
Publishing date: 2 June 2003
ZAGREB, 2 June 2003- The OSCE Mission to Croatia and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights have clarified the background to the figures recently presented in the media or attributed to these organizations in relation to the number of terminated...
OSCE Mission holds two-day anti-trafficking seminar for Serbian Ministry of Social Affairs
Publishing date: 2 June 2003
BELGRADE, 2 June 2003- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro today opened an anti-trafficking seminar for representatives from the Serbian Ministry of Social Affairs. The seminar aims at assisting the Ministry...
OSCE media watchdog questions suspension of independent Belarusian newspapers
Publishing date: 30 May 2003
VIENNA, 30 May 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has asked Belarus Foreign Minister for urgent clarification regarding the suspension of publication of the independent newspapers Belaruskaya Delovaya Gazeta...
OSCE media watchdog concerned about ownership deregulation in USA
Publishing date: 29 May 2003
VIENNA, 29 May 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, expressed concern today over the effect that media deregulation in the USA, the most symbolically important country for the culture of press freedom...
OSCE PA Working Group on Belarus Visits Minsk and Gomel
Publishing date: 29 May 2003
MINSK, 28 May 2003- Three members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Working Group on Belarus, Ms. Uta Zapf (Germany), the Chair of the Group, Mr. Urban Ahlin (Sweden), and Lord Ponsonby (United Kingdom) visited Gomel and Minsk...
OSCE supports first international mine clearance project in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 29 May 2003
DUSHANBE, 29 May 2003- An agreement to start the first internationally supported mine clearance operations in Tajikistan was signed today in the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe, clearing the way for a nation-wide Mine Action Project to start in June...