News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE helps implement Dniester river basin project
Publishing date: 1 December 2005
ODESA, Ukraine, 1 December 2005- A meeting of national working groups in Odesa today marks the end of a project aimed at enhancing regional co-operation between Ukraine and Moldova on integrated water resources management in the Dniester river basin...
OSCE Mission holds local government conference for interns in Serbia
Publishing date: 25 November 2005
BELGRADE, 25 November 2005- Municipal interns from across Serbia received extensive training at a two-day local government orientation conference ending today in Belgrade. The conference, organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro...
OSCE Representative urges regional anti-trafficking seminar to create better data-gathering arrangements
Publishing date: 23 November 2005
VIENNA, 23 November 2005- A platform that would facilitate data collection, monitoring and evaluation and enhance regional co-operation and co-ordination, was backed by the OSCE Special Representative on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Dr....
OSCE conference for South Caucasus journalists focuses on public service broadcasting and the Internet
Publishing date: 21 November 2005
VIENNA, 21 November 2005- The editorial independence of public service broadcasting and press freedom on the Internet were the focus of the Second South Caucasus Media Conference that ended on Friday in Tbilisi...
OSCE and Council of Europe sign agreement on common goals in south-eastern Europe
Publishing date: 17 November 2005
STRASBOURG, 17 November 2005- The OSCE Secretary General, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Terry Davis, today signed an agreement on local and regional self-government in south-eastern Europe...
OSCE Mission welcomes Croatia's maturing democracy
Publishing date: 17 November 2005
VIENNA, 17 November 2005- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Ambassador Jorge Fuentes, today presented the latest bi-annual Mission Report to the OSCE Permanent Council, outlining the progress he judges Croatian authorities have made in fields...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes new Macedonian broadcast law
Publishing date: 11 November 2005
VIENNA, 11 November 2005- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, lauded the new Law on Broadcast Activity, passed Wednesday at a Parliamentary session in Skopje, to regulate the private broadcasting industry, as well as...