News and press releases

SKOPJE, 20 April 1999-- OSCE KVM Human Rights staff previously working in Kosovo are conducting in-depth interviews with victims and witnesses regarding alleged human rights violations, covering the period 20 March 1999 onwards....

PRISTINA, 9 April 1999-- The pace of registering ethnic Albanian refugees in the Stenkovac camps to make them ready for airlifts to sanctuary countries is rapidly increasing, and is expected soon to reach 2000 persons a day....

SKOPJE, 6 April 1999-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Knut Vollebaek offered the resources of the 250 strong OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission in Ohrid, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, to support the UNHCR relief efforts in a statement on 1 April....

SKOPJE, 4 April 1999-- The OSCE Kosovo Mission, presently located in the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (fYROM), is making a concerted effort to produce the most extensive picture possible of the human rights situation within Kosovo during the

VIENNA, 1 April 1999-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Vollebæk, is deeply concerned about the 30 March 1999 arrest of Mr. Mikhail Chegir, a former Prime Minister of Belarus and one of the candidates for the presidenti

VIENNA, 1 April 1999-- The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Vollebæk, has decided to use personnel and equipment from the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) to alleviate the situation for refugees who have fled from Kos

OSLO, 1 April 1999-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Knut Vollebæk, expresses his profound outrage that Yugoslavian and Serbian forces have in recent days blatantly perpetrated, and continue to perpetrate, crimes agains