News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Freimut Duve: fighting terrorism should not be used as an excuse to violate basic human rights
Publishing date: 27 September 2001
VIENNA, 27 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The world public is still mourning the victims of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Many governments are already actively developing new approaches to their securit...
Chairperson of Board of Directors of Radio-Television Kosovo elected
Publishing date: 26 September 2001
PRISTINA, 26 September 2001 (OSCE)-- At its first meeting yesterday, the Board of Directors of Radio-Television Kosovo (RTK), the province\'s independent public service broadcaster, elected Adem Demaci as its chairperson...
OSCE to organize conference on import and storage of radioactive waste in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 26 September 2001
ALMATY, 10 September 2001 (OSCE)- On 19 and 20 October, an OSCE-initiated two-day conference focusing on the import and storage of radioactive waste in Kazakhstan is scheduled to take place in the country\'s capital Almaty...
Radio Television Kosovo Board of Directors to hold first meeting
Publishing date: 25 September 2001
PRISTINA, 25 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The first meeting of the Board of Directors of Radio-Television Kosovo (RTK), is being held today, chaired by Ambassdor Daan Everts, OSCE Head of Mission...
OSCE South-eastern Europe Heads of Mission meet in Croatia
Publishing date: 24 September 2001
ZAGREB, 24 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Ambassador Bernard Poncet is hosting a meeting of the Heads of OSCE Missions and Offices in South-eastern Europe in Bezanec Castle, near Zagreb, on 24 and 25 September 2001
Head of Mission welcomes certification of Kosovo Serb citizens' initiative
Publishing date: 24 September 2001
PRISTINA, 24 September 2001 (OSCE)-- A Kosovo Serb citizens\' initiative has been certified to take part in the 2001 Assembly Election by the Central Election Commission (CEC)...
Voters' list for Kosovo Assembly election to top one million
Publishing date: 24 September 2001
PRISTINA, 24 September 2001 (OSCE)-- Almost 350,000 people in Kosovo and beyond had visited combined Voter Services and Registration Centres by Saturday\'s deadline...
OSCE human rights office calls for independent investigation of unsolved disappearances and murders in Belarus and Ukraine
Publishing date: 24 September 2001
WARSAW, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE's human rights institution, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), today called for an independent investigation of the murder of the Ukrainian journalist Georgyi Gongadze...
OSCE Permanent Council expresses concern about recent anti-Muslim incidents
Publishing date: 21 September 2001
VIENNA, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)- Coming together for a special session to discuss the fight against terrorism, the OSCE Permanent Council today expressed its concern about reports of anti-Muslim incidents and violence in several OSCE countries...
OSCE encourages women to participate in multi-ethnic police training in Yugoslavia
Publishing date: 21 September 2001
BELGRADE, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia welcomes the beginning of a campaign to include women in the training program for multi-ethnic police, which the OSCE and the Serb Ministry of Interior...