News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE funds public information campaign on minority elections in Croatia
Publishing date: 8 May 2003
ZAGREB, 8 May 2003- The OSCE Mission to Croatia has signed today a contract with a leading Croatian non-governmental organization, GONG, for the conduct of a public information campaign on elections for national minorities in the country...
OSCE trains bar exam candidates in Kosovo
Publishing date: 8 May 2003
PRISTINA, 8 May 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo is organizing a preparatory class for a group of trainee lawyers who are scheduled to take the bar exam in June...
OSCE Mission pledges to support Serbian Government's efforts to improve prison standards
Publishing date: 8 May 2003
BELGRADE, 8 May 2003- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro pledged today to support the Serbian Government in its efforts to improve standards in prisons...
UN Mission in Kosovo at most critical phase, UNMIK Head tells OSCE
Publishing date: 8 May 2003
VIENNA, 8 May 2003- The United Nations Mission in Kosovo has entered what is perhaps its most critical and delicate phase as powers are transferred from the international community to local bodies, Michael Steiner, Special Representative of the UN...
Parliamentarians to join OSCE short-term observation of Armenian elections
Publishing date: 6 May 2003
COPENHAGEN, 6 May 2003- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA) will send a large delegation of OSCE parliamentarians to observe the parliamentary elections in Armenia on 25 May. In...
Hundreds of cyclists tour Montenegro, Albania and Italy to highlight scourge of trafficking
Publishing date: 6 May 2003
TIRANA, 6 May 2003- Over 400 hundred people took part in a ten-day biking tour through Montenegro, Albania and Italy to raise awareness about human trafficking. The tour, which started in Podgorica, Montenegro, on 27 April finished in Durres...
Serbia and Kosovo media executives come together for first time in a decade
Publishing date: 6 May 2003
PRISTINA, 6 May 2003- Leading editors-in-chief and media executives from Serbia and Kosovo will be gathering in Ohrid, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYROM), from 7 to 9 May. The conference, organized and financed by the OSCE Mission in...
Barbara Haering chairs Bern Conference on Fostering Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the OSCE area
Publishing date: 6 May 2003
COPENHAGEN, 6 May 2003- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) will hold a Conference on Promoting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the OSCE Area from 14-16 May...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo distributes human rights remedies catalogue
Publishing date: 6 May 2003
PRISTINA, 6 May 2003- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo (OMIK) is about to deliver 600 copies of a new human rights publication to local and international authorities in Kosovo with the aim of helping them to better monitor the implementation and...
Tajik journalists celebrate Press Freedom Day with OSCE Centre in Dushanbe
Publishing date: 5 May 2003
DUSHANBE, 5 May 2003- Some five hundred journalists from across Tajikistan gathered to celebrate World Press Freedom Day at a special event in Dushanbe on Saturday. The winners of a competition on how democratic and socio-economic reforms for...