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OSCE Chairman-in-Office concerned about four deported Uzbek asylum-seekers

Publishing date: 14 June 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization, Border management, Human rights, National minority issues, Rule of law
LONDON, 14 June 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, said today he was deeply concerned about the fate of four asylum seekers, who were returned to Uzbekistan Friday by authorities in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan...

OSCE hosts three-country conference on judicial co-operation in war crimes proceedings

Publishing date: 8 June 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
VELIKI BRIJUNI, 8 June 2005- The OSCE on Wednesday hosted a conference of justice ministers from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Montenegro on inter-state judicial co-operation in war crimes proceedings. Ministers identified...

OSCE and Council of Europe encourage consultation on freedom of assembly law in Armenia

Publishing date: 3 June 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
YEREVAN, 3 June, 2005- The right to freedom of assembly was the focus of a meeting held by the OSCE and the Council of Europe in Yerevan today. It brought together government officials, parliamentarians, members of political parties, civil society...

OSCE Centre raises awareness on fair trials in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 31 May 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
DUSHANBE, 31 May 2005- The OSCE Centre in Dushanbe today launched a project aimed at training professionals on trial monitoring techniques to improve the transparency and fairness of trials in Tajikistan. "This programme has the potential to become...

OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro supports implementation of law on free access to information

Publishing date: 27 May 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Rule of law
BELGRADE, 27 May 2005- The law on free access to information and the rights of citizens to seek and receive information, as well as the obligations of the State in this respect, were the focus of a meeting that ended in Vrsac on 25 May...

Acting Kyrgyz President Bakiev to address OSCE Permanent Council on Monday with OSCE Chairman

Publishing date: 25 May 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Elections, Rule of law
VIENNA, 25 May 2005- Kyrgyzstan's Acting President Kurmanbek Bakiev will address a special session of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on Monday, 30 May, with the OSCE Chairman, Slovenia's Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel. Issues including the...

OSCE Chairman, ICTY Head welcome Permanent Council decision on intensified co-operation

Publishing date: 19 May 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Rule of law
VIENNA, 19 May 2005- A meeting of the Permanent Council, addressed by the Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY, Carla Del Ponte, agreed today to commence co-operation on monitoring war crimes trials. The decision was welcomed by the Chairman of the OSCE...