News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR welcomes Albanian election commission's initiative on independent candidates
Publishing date: 21 June 2001
WARSAW, 21 June 2001-- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) welcomes the initiative by the Albanian Central Election Commission on the issue of independent candidates...
OSCE calls on parties in former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to put aside their differences
Publishing date: 21 June 2001
VIENNA, 21 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, today appealed to all parties in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to put aside their differences and make a real effort to compromise...
Report: A strategy for justice in Kosovo
Publishing date: 21 June 2001
PRISTINA, 21 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The lack of a comprehensive and co-ordinated approach to the needs of Kosovo\'s justice system has hampered its effectiveness, according to an OSCE report...
OSCE Ministerial Troika meets in Bucharest
Publishing date: 21 June 2001
BUCHAREST, 21 June 2001 (OSCE)- The OSCE Ministerial Troika, represented by the Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, the Secretary General of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Albert Rohan, and the Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, met...
Now online: Forum for Security Co-operation
Publishing date: 20 June 2001
VIENNA, 20 June 2001 (OSCE)-- Users of the Internet can now access information on the Forum for Security Co-operation, the main OSCE body dealing with military aspects of security, on the OSCE website at www.osce.org/fsc...
Personal Representative of Chairman-in-Office for Central Asia to visit Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 June 2001
ALMATY, 20 June 2001 (OSCE)-- Ambassador Wilhelm Höynck, the recently appointed Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office for tasks in support of the participating States in Central Asia, will visit Kazakhstan from 22 to 25 June 2001...
Human rights manual published in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 20 June 2001
DUSHANBE, 20 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Mission to Tajikistan yesterday officially launched the Russian-language \"Manual of International Acts on Human Rights\"...
Concern over arrest of journalist in Belarus
Publishing date: 19 June 2001
VIENNA, 19 June 2001 (OSCE)-- Valeriy Shukin, a Belarus journalist and 13th Supreme Soviet Deputy, was incarcerated on 12 June 2001 for three months on charges of \"hooliganism.\" He was sentenced on 15 March...
Albanian elections: Statement by Head of OSCE Presence
Publishing date: 19 June 2001
TIRANA, 19 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The following statement was made today by the Head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) Presence in Albania, Ambassador Geert-Hinrich Ahrens at a press conference in Tirana:
Elections top agenda of Chairman-in-Office visit to Kosovo
Publishing date: 19 June 2001
PRISTINA, 19 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, has been holding a series of meetings in the Kosovo capital, Pristina