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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Troika meets in Vienna on 21 October
Publishing date: 20 October 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Troika
VIENNA, 20 October 1999-- The Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Troika-- Minister Knut Vollebaek of Norway, Minister Wolfgang Schüssel of Austria and Minister Bronislaw Geremek of Poland--...
OSCE Review Conference in Vienna 20 September- 1 October
Publishing date: 19 September 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 9 September 1999-- On Monday, 20 September, the 1999 OSCE Review Conference will open at the Hofburg Congress Centre in Vienna. The main purpose of the meeting is to review the entire range of...
OSCE welcomes the release of Russian journalist
Publishing date: 20 July 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 20 July 1999-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomes the release of Grigory Pasko, a Russian journalist who was arrested in November 1997 and charged with spying.
New website for OSCE Mission in Kosovo
Publishing date: 19 July 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 19 July 1999-- The OSCE launched a new internet web site today, that includes up-to-date information on the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. The Mission is a component of the United Nations...
Editor of opposition newspaper in Belarus threatened
Publishing date: 12 July 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 12 July 1999-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, is seriously concerned with reports that a senior editor for the Belaruskaya Delovaya Gazeta, a leading opposition newspaper, had...
OSCE welcomes release of Azerbaijani journalist
Publishing date: 10 July 1999
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, 12 July 1999-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomes reports that Azerbaijan's sole incarcerated journalist, Fuad Qahramanli, has been granted amnesty...
Journalism prize funds go to free press projects in Kosovo
Publishing date: 6 July 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Media freedom and development
ST. PETERSBURG, 6 July 1999- On 6 July 1999, the opening day of the Eighth Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in St. Petersburg...