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OSCE Newsletter now online: Netherlands Chair to focus on human security

Publishing date: 16 January 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Countering terrorism, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti
VIENNA, 16 January 2003- An interview with the new Chairman-in-Office, Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, is the lead item in the latest issue of the OSCE Newsletter, now available online. The Newsletter also focuses on...

OSCE Bishkek workshop reviews democratic control of armed forces

Publishing date: 26 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
BISHKEK, 26 November 2002- The first of a series of Central Asian workshops on politico-military aspects of security ended in the Kyrgyz capital Bishek today. Opening the two-day meeting, Askar Aitmatov, Minister of Foreign Affairs...

"OSCE is not a talking shop" says Secretary General

Publishing date: 3 June 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Economic activities, Border management, Environmental activities, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Roma and Sinti
VIENNA, 3 June 2002- "The OSCE's work makes a practical difference to the lives of ordinary people in troubled areas", said the Secretary General of the Organization, Jan Kubis, dismissing suggestions by some media commentators calling the 55-...

First meeting of Croatian and Bosnian-Serb representatives along Sava river since war

Publishing date: 20 February 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Conflict prevention and resolution
SLAVONSKI BROD, 20 February 2002- For the first time since the end of the conflict of 1991 to 1995, county level officials from former warring municipalities of Croatia and the Bosnia and Herzegovina entity of Republika Srpska are meeting in Croatia...

International conference on countering terrorism to take place in Kyrgyzstan on 13 and 14 December

Publishing date: 29 November 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Democratization, Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 29 November 2001-- Highlighting the importance of the comprehensiveness of efforts to prevent and counter terrorism will be on top of the agenda of an international conference co-organized by the Organization for Security and...

OSCE Media Representative: more needs to be done to safeguard journalists working in conflict zones

Publishing date: 27 November 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 27 November 2001-- Several journalists have been killed over the past weeks in Afghanistan. Fifty-six journalists have already been killed world-wide this year, up from 53 in 2000, according to the World Association of Newspapers...

OSCE group pays three-day visit to Croatia

Publishing date: 22 October 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues
ZAGREB, 22 October 2001 (OSCE)- OSCE officials are visiting Croatia, from 22 to 24 October, to gain a first-hand impression of a number of war-affected areas in the country where the OSCE has offices. The OSCE Mission to Croatia is hosting the visit...