News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE to host training workshops for women candidates in Kosovo elections
Publishing date: 27 August 2001
PRISTINA, 27 August 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE is holding a series of workshops for women candidates for the Kosovo Assembly election. The sessions will discuss the role of women in politics and how they can contribute to democratic governance in Kosovo.
Round table urges Tajikistan to restrict death penalty
Publishing date: 23 August 2001
DUSHANBE, 23 August 2001 (OSCE)-- A round table organized in collaboration with the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan has agreed on a set of recommendations to be put to the Government.
Finnish MP Kimmo Kiljunen to lead OSCE observation of presidential elections in Belarus
Publishing date: 23 August 2001
COPENHAGEN, 23 August 2001 (OSCE)- OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Vice-President Kimmo Kiljunen MP (Finland) will lead the OSCE Observers for the Presidential Elections in Belarus on Sunday 9 September 2001.
OSCE committed to implementation of property law in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 23 August 2001
SARAJEVO, 23 August 2001 (OSCE)-- With regard to recent media reports about a legal controversy regarding alleged illegal occupancy of real property in the region of Banja Luka, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina wishes to reiterate...
OSCE and High Representative welcome adoption of Election Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 23 August 2001
SARAJEVO, 23 August 2001 (OSCE)-- The Acting Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dieter Woltmann, and the High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, wholeheartedly welcome the adoption of the Election Law by the Bosnia and Herzegovina...
Chairman-in-Office welcomes pardon of Kyrgyz human rights activist Turgunaliyev
Publishing date: 22 August 2001
BUCHAREST, 22 August 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, welcomes the decision taken by the Kyrgyz President, Askar Akayev, to sign a decree on pardoning the well-known human...
New Head appointed for Skopje Mission
Publishing date: 22 August 2001
SKOPJE, 22 August 2001 (OSCE)- Ambassador Craig Jenness from Canada has been appointed as new Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. He took up his duties on 20 August. Prior to this new position, Ambassador Jenness has been...
Freimut Duve: independent newspaper confiscated in Belarus
Publishing date: 21 August 2001
VIENNA, 21 August 2001 (OSCE)-- On 17 August, 400,000 copies of a special issue of the independent Belarus newspaper Nasha Svaboda were confiscated at the private publishing house Magic in Minsk by police from the Committee for Financial...
Skopje Mission strongly condemns destruction of Lesok Monastery
Publishing date: 21 August 2001
SKOPJE, 21 August 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Mission to Skopje strongly condemns the destruction of the Lesok Monastery in the early hours of today. According to first findings, the destruction seems to be a deliberate and premeditated...
OSCE organizes civic education summer camp for students in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 17 August 2001
DUSHANBE, 17 August 2001 (OSCE)-- From 20 August to 3 September, the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan organizes a two-week summer camp for university students from the Sught Province in North Tajikistan...