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OSCE Chairman-in-Office on armed insurrection in Georgia
Publishing date: 21 October 1998
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Democratization
WARSAW, 21 October 1998-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek, is concerned about the recent armed insurrection in Western Georgia. This is a...
OSCE appoints Head of Kosovo Verification Mission
Publishing date: 17 October 1998
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
WARSAW, 17 October 1998-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, appointed Ambassador William Graham Walker of the United States as Head of the OSCE Kosovo today...
Presidential elections in Azerbaijan fall short of OSCE commitments
Publishing date: 16 October 1998
WARSAW, 16 October 1998-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Minister Bronislaw Geremek, regrets that the Presidential Election in the Republic of Azerbaijan fell short of OSCE...
Committee on Belarus established by OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Publishing date: 16 October 1998
COPENHAGEN, 16 October 1998- The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has established an ad hoc Committee on Belarus. President of the Assembly, Mrs. Helle Degn, MP (Denmark), has...
OSCE concerned about the war against independent media in Yugoslavia
Publishing date: 15 October 1998
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 15 October 1998-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, is increasingly worried by the renewed declaration of war against the independent media proclaimed by Milosevic\'s government...
US Special Envoy for Kosovo addresses Permanent Council
Publishing date: 15 October 1998
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (closed)
VIENNA, 15 October 1998- Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, US Special Envoy for Kosovo, briefed the special session of the OSCE...
OSCE decides to support verification mission for Kosovo
Publishing date: 15 October 1998
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 15 October 1998- At a special meeting on Kosovo today, the OSCE Permanent Council issued a Decision which declares the preparedness of the OSCE to...
Former Romanian Foreign Minister to head committee on Belarus
Publishing date: 15 October 1998
COPENHAGEN, 15 October 1998- The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has established an ad hoc Committee on Belarus. Mrs. Helle Degn, MP...
Croatian parliamentarians discuss media law amendments with experts
Publishing date: 12 October 1998
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 12 October 1998-- On Friday, 9 October, the OSCE Mission to Croatia organized a meeting between members of the House of Representatives of the Parliament and media experts from the Council of Europe, in order to discuss amendments to the HRT Law.
Head of OSCE election observers in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia appointed
Publishing date: 12 October 1998
COPENHAGEN, 12 October 1998-- Mr. Tekin Enerem MP (Turkey), Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will arrive in Skopje on Wednesday 14 October to lead the OSCE observers for the Parliamentary Elections in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Mace