News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR opens observation mission to monitor Slovak elections
Publishing date: 22 August 2002
BRATISLAVA, 23 August 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has established an election observation mission to monitor the elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic scheduled for 20 and 21 September...
Defence of a common future in Kosovo
Publishing date: 21 August 2002
VIENNA, 21 August 2002- The mobile.culture.container is a project of the Fund In Defence of our Future. Its initiator is Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. The project operates in the framework of the Stability Pact...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office expresses condolences on deaths of Russian servicemen
Publishing date: 21 August 2002
LISBON, 21 August 2002- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz, has expressed condolences to the Russian Foreign Minister, Igor Ivanov, over the deaths of Russian servicemen in Chechnya on Monday, 19 August...
OSCE Mission to assess second election re-run in southern Serbia
Publishing date: 20 August 2002
BELGRADE, 20 August 2002- The Serbian government conducted proportional municipal elections in Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac on 28 July, supported by the OSCE, its Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and other...
Training programme prepares over 3,500 police officers for Macedonian parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 16 August 2002
SKOPJE, 16 August, 2002- More than 3,500 police officers have completed a training course on how to ensure security in line with international policing practices during the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of...
OSCE-supervised melange project in Georgia successfully concluded
Publishing date: 16 August 2002
TBILISI, 16 August 2002- The Melange project, an OSCE-supervised project aimed at producing fertilizer from highly explosive missile fuel in Georgia, has been successfully concluded. "The international co-operation of German experts with local...
OSCE's human rights office concerned about broadening of prosecutors' powers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 16 August 2002
WARSAW, 16 August 2002- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) expressed its concern about a new law broadening the powers of the Prosecutor's Office in Kazakhstan. The law was passed by Parliament...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office supports election assistance in Montenegro
Publishing date: 14 August 2002
LISBON, 14 August 2002- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office today expressed his full support for the efforts of the OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, through its Office in Montenegro, as well as the technical experts...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo extends voter services period by one week
Publishing date: 14 August 2002
PRISTINA, 14 August 2002- People in Kosovo have now one more week to go an OSCE Voter Service Centre in order to verify and, if necessary, amend their voter registration details for the forthcoming municipal elections this fall...
First anniversary of Ohrid Agreement reflects year of progress in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Publishing date: 14 August 2002
VIENNA, 13 August, 2002- The OSCE Chairmanship notes the first anniversary of the signing of the Ohrid Framework Agreement, which put an end to the conflict in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Its subsequent implementation...