News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Strengthening co-operation between OSCE and SEECP
Publishing date: 31 July 2001
BUCHAREST, 31 July 2001 (OSCE)- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, met yesterday in Bucharest Mr. Paskal Milo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania...
OSCE welcomes abolition of exit permits in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 31 July 2001
ALMATY, 31 July 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Centre in Almaty commends Kazakhstan for having abolished the so-called exit visas by governmental decree on 28 July. In the light of OSCE commitments and repeated recommendations from the OSCE...
OSCE election observers not yet welcome in Belarus
Publishing date: 30 July 2001
WARSAW, 30 July 2001 (OSCE)- The Belarusian authorities today informed the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) that it should delay deployment of its Mission to observe the upcoming Presidential election...
Freimut Duve concerned over attack on journalists in Genoa
Publishing date: 27 July 2001
VIENNA, 27 July 2001 (OSCE)-- On 27 July, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, intervened with the Italian Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero regarding actions by the Italian police against journalists...
Kosovo voter services to begin on Monday, 30 July
Publishing date: 27 July 2001
PRISTINA, 27 July 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Mission in Kosovo is going to update the province\'s voters\' list in a six-week exercise that begins on Monday, 30 July. The Mission\'s office for voter services is setting up 48 sites across Kosovo...
OSCE "stands ready to assist in implementation of a peace agreement", says Chairman-in-Office in Skopje
Publishing date: 27 July 2001
SKOPJE, 27 July 2001 (OSCE)- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, visited Skopje yesterday, together with NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson and European Union Foreign Policy High Representative...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office in Skopje today
Publishing date: 26 July 2001
BUCHAREST, 26 July 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, is travelling today to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In Skopje, he will meet with the NATO Secretary General...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office concerned by recent outburst of violence in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Publishing date: 25 July 2001
BUCHAREST, 25 July 2001 (OSCE)-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, has expressed his deep concern about the recent outburst of violence in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...
OSCE/ODIHR and Russian Central Election Commission to co-operate in observing Belarus elections
Publishing date: 24 July 2001
WARSAW, 24 July 2001 (OSCE)- Ambassador Gerard Stoudmann, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), met today in Warsaw with Mr. Alexander Veshnyakov, Chairman of the Russian Federation Central Election...
Albanian elections: In remaining zones, third round highlights problems
Publishing date: 23 July 2001
TIRANA, 23 July 2001 (OSCE)-- The two weeks leading up to yesterday's third round of Albanian parliamentary elections served to highlight remaining electoral deficiencies, concluded the International Election Observation Mission...