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OSCE announces that confidence- and security-building agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina will end in September 2004

Publishing date: 24 June 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 23 June 2004- The Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO for Articles II and IV, General Claudio Zappulla, announced today that the Agreement on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in Bosnia and Herzegovina will end in September...

OSCE Chairman calls for focus on new areas in fight against terrorism

Publishing date: 23 June 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 23 June 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, called on Wednesday on the OSCE States to focus on new areas such as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials in the fight against terrorism...

OSCE 'Berlin Declaration' sets out concrete measures to fight anti-Semitism

Publishing date: 29 April 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
BERLIN, 29 April 2004- The OSCE's second Conference on anti-Semitism ended today with a ringing condemnation of all acts motivated by anti-Semitism or other forms of religious or racial hatred, and States agreed to take specific, practical counter...

UN-OSCE counter-terrorism conference begins with minute's silence for Madrid victims

Publishing date: 11 March 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 11 March 2004- A UN-OSCE counter-terrorism conference in Vienna began on Thursday with a minute's silence in honour of the victims of terrorist bomb attacks in Madrid earlier in the day...

Miklos Haraszti appointed OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

Publishing date: 9 March 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 9 March 2004- Miklos Haraszti has been appointed OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media with effect from 10 March 2004. In a letter announcing Haraszti's appointment for a period of three years, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian...

Afghan Foreign Minister seeks OSCE support

Publishing date: 4 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Asian Partners for Co-operation, OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights
VIENNA, 4 December 2003- Afghan Foreign Minister Dr Abdullah Abdullah thanked the OSCE on Thursday for granting his country the status of Partner for Co-operation and asked for the Organization's support as Afghanistan seeks to build security and...

Sustainable business development is best conflict prevention, say OSCE seminar participants

Publishing date: 17 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
VIENNA, 17 November 2003- The importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in transition economies and their role in economic development and employment is the topic of an international OSCE seminar that takes place in Armenia today...