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Council of Europe and OSCE launch European Charter on Youth Participation

Publishing date: 28 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Elections
SARAJEVO, 28 March 2002- The Council of Europe office in Sarajevo and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina have launched today the BiH edition of the "European Charter on the Participation of Young People in Municipal and Regional Life"...

OSCE welcomes agreement on constitutional amendments in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Publishing date: 28 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Conflict prevention and resolution
SARAJEVO, 28 March 2002- OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina welcomes the agreement reached on 27 March on the implementation of the Constituent Peoples' decision. The agreement is the result of the firm determination...

Melange Project: beating dangerous fuel into fertilizer

Publishing date: 28 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
TBILISI, 28 March 2002- An OSCE-supervised project in Georgia to produce fertilizers from extremely dangerous missile fuel is well underway. Two German experts working on the field gave positive account of their evaluation of the "Melange...

Chairman-in-Office urges restart of negotiations in Moldova

Publishing date: 27 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
CHISINAU, 27 March 2002- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, has urged all sides involved in the Transdniestrian conflict to resume talks as soon as possible. "Negotiations are the only way to...

Fifth civil society development centre in Albania opened in Elbasan

Publishing date: 26 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Democratization
TIRANA, 26 March 2002- The last of a network of five Civil Society Development Centres located throughout Albania was officially opened today in Elbasan by the representatives of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Albania, the OSCE Presence in...

OSCE welcomes opening of judiciary training institute in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 26 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ALMATY, 26 March 2002- The OSCE Centre in Almaty welcomes the official opening of the judiciary training institute. The Center sees the establishment of the institute under the Supreme Court as a great step forward in Kazakhstan's efforts...

Statement by OSCE/ODIHR Director Gérard Stoudmann

Publishing date: 21 March 2002
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Elections
WARSAW, 21 March 2002- The Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador Gérard Stoudmann, has made the following statement in order to correct misinterpretations of his remarks concerning...

Environmental information centre opens in Armenia

Publishing date: 21 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization
YEREVAN, 21 March 2002- A memorandum of understanding on the establishment of a Public Environmental Information Centre in Armenia, the Armenian Arhus Centre, was signed by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the Armenian Ministry of Nature Protection...

Armenian Foreign Minister praises OSCE's conflict prevention activities

Publishing date: 21 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues
VIENNA, 21 March 2002- Speaking before the 55-nation OSCE Permanent Council, the Armenian Foreign Minister, Vartan Oskanian, today expressed his Government's appreciation for the work the OSCE has done in his country...

OSCE sends Kosovo journalists on working trip to Switzerland

Publishing date: 21 March 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 21 March 2002- A group of six radio journalists from Kosovo are undergoing a four-day fact-finding trip to Switzerland to visit the Parliament and meet Swiss counterparts from German and French-speaking broadcast media...