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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Free media conference opens in Zagreb
Publishing date: 1 March 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 1 March 2001-- The President of Croatia, Stjepan Mesic, called on media in South-Eastern Europe to be free of politics and said journalists should work to rehabilitate the "partly compromised" profession...
Attack on Croatian journalists condemned
Publishing date: 1 March 2001
Content type: Press release
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 1 March 2001-- Participants in the OSCE-Council of Europe conference on 'Free Media in South-Eastern Europe' in Zagreb released the following statement upon learning of an attack on two Croatian journalists:
Successful implementation of Article II Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 22 February 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
VIENNA, 22 February 2001-- Since the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords five years ago, the Confidence- and Security Building Measures in Bosnia and Herzegovina are continuing to be successfully implemented...
Chairman-in-Office reviews progress in Croatia
Publishing date: 19 February 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, National minority issues, Policing
ZAGREB, 19 February 2001- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, has noted progress in areas covered by the OSCE mandate in Croatia...
OSCE and Council of Europe exchange letters of co-operation on FRY
Publishing date: 16 February 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Partnerships, OSCE Mission to Serbia
VIENNA, 16 February 2001- The Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Jan Kubis, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), Walter Schwimmer, yesterday exchanged letters...
South-Eastern Europe and the Caucasus focus of tripartite meeting
Publishing date: 16 February 2001
VIENNA, 16 February 2001- The partners in the tripartite process, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Council of Europe and United Nations organisations, led by the United Nations Office at Geneva, met today in Vienna...
"Censorship by killing" must end
Publishing date: 14 February 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 14 February 2001-- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has issued a call for OSCE participating States put an end to "censorship by killing,"...