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Expert meeting focuses on OSCE role in advancing European security dialogue

OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (r), Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger (c) and OSCE Permanent Council Chairperson, Ambassador Mara Marinaki at a conference on European security dialogue, Vienna, 8 May 2009. (Holzner/Hopi Media)

VIENNA, 8 May 2009 - The OSCE is the right forum for taking forward discussions on the future of European security, said participants at the start of an expert meeting on a European security dialogue held by the Austrian Foreign Ministry today...

OSCE Special Representative meets Armenian officials to discuss priorities in fight against human trafficking

Eva Biaudet (l), OSCE Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, and Armen Gevorgyan (r), Armenian Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Territorial Administration, at the Ministry during an official visit to Yerevan, 8 May 2009. (Hayk Badalyan/Photolur)

YEREVAN, 8 May 2009 - OSCE Special Representative Eva Biaudet welcomed today the Armenian authorities' efforts to combat trafficking in human beings and underscored the need to place human trafficking higher on the political agenda...

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Features

School magazine in multi-ethnic Montenegro has lessons for adults too

Children from the "Marshal Tito" elementary school in Ulcinj, Montenegro, holding the second issue of their magazine Djecja Planeta (Children's Planet), 22 December 2008. (OSCE/Mia Lausevic)

An OSCE Mission to Montenegro project is helping schoolchildren in Ulcinj in the south of the country produce a magazine with a message: combating discrimination and intolerance in their multi-ethnic community.

OSCE Mission in Kosovo steers steady course in changing environment

Björn von Sydow (c), rapporteur on Kosovo for the CoE Parliamentary Assembly, meets Bo-Ewert Linne (l), Director of the Kosovo Mission's Regional Centre in Prishtinë/Pristina, and CoE Office Head, Nanna Magnadottir, in Graçanicë/Gracanica, 5 Feb 2009. (OSCE)

Despite the dramatic changes in Kosovo over the past 18 months, the OSCE Mission is steering a steady course, helping to ensure that the human rights of everyone living there are fully respected.

Skopje Mission assists in best possible presidential and municipal elections

The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje's Situation Centre was the core of its monitoring activity during election day on 22 March 2009. (OSCE/Eberhard Laue)

With the first round of the presidential and municipal elections on 22 March successfully concluded, the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje aims to ensure that the second round of voting on 5 April is equally as smooth.

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Students of Jeta Re secondary school in Suharekë/Suva Reka during a performance at the city's cultural house as part of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo's activities to mark Earth Day, Suharekë/Suva Reka, 22 April 2009. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)

Students of Jeta Re secondary school in Suharekë/Suva Reka during a performance at the city's cultural house as part of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo's activities to mark Earth Day, Suharekë/Suva Reka, 22 April 2009. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)

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