Skip navigation

0Meta Navigation

× Close search

Navigation

Home Newsroom Press releases
Newsroom

News and press releases

Subscribe to News Updates

News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.

OSCE Chairman-in-Office calls for plan of action to fight terrorism

Publishing date: 21 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Summits / Ministerial Councils, Permanent Council
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Border management, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 21 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, called today on all 55 OSCE participating States to work together to develop an OSCE-wide plan of action for the fight against terrorism...

OSCE helps train public affairs officers in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Publishing date: 20 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization, Media freedom and development
BANJA LUKA, 20 September 2001 (OSCE)- Increased transparency of governmental work and improvement of the communication between government, media and citizens is the main subject of a four-day workshop that began on 17 September in Banja Luka

President of the Kyrgyz Republic calls for urgent action against terrorism

Publishing date: 20 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 20 September 2001 (OSCE)- In an address to the Permanent Council of the OSCE yesterday, the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Mr. Askar Akaev, expressed his profound sense of shock at the tragic events that struck the United States last week

OSCE's human rights office concerned about anti-Muslim violence

Publishing date: 19 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues
WARSAW, 19 September 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE's human rights office today expressed concern about the recent wave of anti-Muslim incidents and violence in several OSCE countries following last week's terror attacks in the United States...

2001 voters' list closes on Saturday in Kosovo

Publishing date: 19 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 19 September 2001 (OSCE)- The voters\' list for the 2001 Kosovo Assembly Election will close this Saturday, 22 September...

OSCE welcomes not guilty verdict in Jehovah's Witness trial in Armenia

Publishing date: 18 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues
YEREVAN, 18 September 2001-- The OSCE Office in Yerevan welcomes the verdict of not guilty in the case brought against Levon Markaryan in the first instance court in Armavir. Mr. Markaryan was accused under article 244...

Yugoslav NGO granted observer status for Kosovo elections

Publishing date: 18 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Democratization, Elections
PRISTINA, 18 September 2001 (OSCE)- The Belgrade-based non-governmental organization, Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID), has been granted observer status for the 2001 Kosovo electoral process by the province's Central Election...

OSCE to make fight against terrorism top priority

Publishing date: 17 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Arms control, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
WARSAW, 17 September 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE will make the fight against terrorism a top priority. In a message to the opening of the annual OSCE human rights conference, the Organization's Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office visits Skopje

Publishing date: 14 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
SKOPJE, 14 September 2001 (OSCE)-- \"The role and profile of the OSCE in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are to increase considerably\", stated Mr. Mircea Geoana, OSCE Chairman-in-Office, during his visit to Skopje today

Head of OSCE Presence in Albania visits newly-appointed Minister of Environment

Publishing date: 13 September 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
TIRANA, 13 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens, visited yesterday the newly-appointed Albanian Minister for the Environment, Mr. Ruka.