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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Defence of a common future in Kosovo
Publishing date: 21 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 21 August 2002- The mobile.culture.container is a project of the Fund In Defence of our Future. Its initiator is Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. The project operates in the framework of the Stability Pact...
Clock starts running on 1 August for Croatian Government's action on property repossession
Publishing date: 1 August 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ZAGREB, 1 August 2002- Legal provisions coming into effect today set a series of deadlines for the Croatian Government to promptly return occupied private properties to their owners...
OSCE Croatia Mission supports refugee return pledge at Sarajevo Summit
Publishing date: 17 July 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, National minority issues
ZAGREB, 17 July 2002- The OSCE Mission to Croatia is encouraged by the joint statement made in Sarajevo Monday by the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Presidents of the Republic of Croatia and of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...
OSCE Mission discusses international community's concern with Croatian President
Publishing date: 8 July 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: National minority issues
ZAGREB, 08 July, 2002- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Croatia, Ambassador Peter Semneby, was received today by Croatian President Stjepan Mesic, to discuss issues of concern to the OSCE and to the international community...
Freimut Duve: What Happened to Dmitri Zavadsky?
Publishing date: 8 July 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 8 July 2002- July 7, 2002 marks the second anniversary of the disappearance at Minsk airport of the young Belarusian cameraman, Dmitri Zavadsky, who was working at the time for the Russian television channel, ORT.
OSCE Media Representative asks Berlusconi for clarification on removal of TV programmes
Publishing date: 27 June 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 27 June 2002- In a letter to the Italian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Silvio Berlusconi, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has asked for clarification on the recent removal of two political...
OSCE Media Representative concerned about criminal verdicts for Belarus journalists
Publishing date: 26 June 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 26 June 2002- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, is deeply concerned about a criminal court sentence of two Belarusian journalists, Nikolai Markevich and Pavel Mozheiko, for allegedly having insulted President...