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  Chair of organisation for security and cooperation in europe briefs ..
Among the priorities for the Belgian Chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was institutional reform, seeking a better balance between the various dimensions of its approach to security, promoting the rule of law, and resolving conflicts and crises, Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht told the Security Council this morning.
Security was a battle that was never won and which needed constant attention.
As Chair of the Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee, she welcomed the Chairman's intention to maintain strong cooperation between the OSCE and the Committee, which was a model for the kind of cooperation the Committee was striving to establish with other regional organizations.
www.nieuwsbank.nl /en/2006/01/17/f004.htm   (3487 words)

  
 NATO Handbook: The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), formerly known as the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), was initially a political consultative process involving participating states from Europe, Central Asia and North America.
Launched in 1972, the CSCE process led to the adoption of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975.
Following the election of Vojislav Kostunica as President in September 2000, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was admitted to the OSCE on 10 November 2000, as the 55th member state.
www.nato.int /docu/handbook/2001/hb1502.htm   (208 words)

  
 [25 Nov 1997] GA/9362 : GENERAL ASSEMBLY URGES `OLYMPIC TRUCE' DURING WINTER GAMES IN NAGANO, JAPAN
It is expected to resume consideration of cooperation between the United Nations and the OSCE and also consider its agenda items on multilingualism and the return or restitution of cultural property.
He hoped the high level of cooperation reached between the two organizations in the peace process in the former Yugoslavia would be maintained during the period of post-conflict peace-building, aimed at creating a genuine civil society in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It was essential that the cooperation of international organizations, especially with regard to emergency situations and field operations, was based on a clear understanding which set out a framework of cooperation and allowed for the maximum possible coordination of those activities.
www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1997/19971125.GA9362.html   (8281 words)

  
 Treaty
They attach particular importance to cooperation in the field of vocational education and the post-graduate training of specialists and declare that they are ready to broaden and deepen this cooperation.
Accordingly, they shall have the right to establish and maintain their own educational, cultural and religious institutions, organisations and associations which are entitled to seek voluntary financial and other contributions, as well as public support in accordance with the domestic legislation.
They will cooperate in the appropriate operation of the mechanisms of the Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe verifying compliance with obligations contained in the documents of these organisations and to which the Parties have entered into.
hungaryemb.ines.ro /en/tratat.html   (2972 words)

  
 The NATO-Russia Archive - New European Security Architecture
Renamed to OSCE at the Budapest Summit in December 1994, the organisation was intended to be developed into a "primary instrument for early warning, conflict prevention and crisis management from Vancouver to Vladivostok".
The Security Council: While the decisions of the General Assembly are not legally-binding for participating governments, the decisions of the Security Council are.
The aim of the Council of Europe is to safeguard the principles contained in the European Convention on Human Rights and to facilitate the economic and social progress of its member states.
www.bits.de /NRANEU/EuropeanSecurity.htm   (2828 words)

  
 The Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
With 55 participating states, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is the world’s most broadly-based regional body dealing with issues concerning international security.
The cooperation that led to the birth of the OSCE began with the signing of the Final Act of the first Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Helsinki in 1975.
The organisation’s goal is to bring states together, as equal partners, to discuss themes and agree on measures to enhance the security of states both individually and collectively.
www.eduskunta.fi /efakta/Etyj/main.htm   (1294 words)

  
 FES: Handbuch Menschenrechte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The heads of state and government of 35 participating nations (Europe, the United States, and Canada) put their signatures to the Final Act of Helsinki, a compilation of politically binding principles regulating the behaviour of governments vis-à-vis their citizens and other states.
Besides, OSCE member states have declared categorically and irrevocably that any and all undertakings relating to the Human Dimension are 'issues of immediate and valid interest to all states involved, which are not entirely regarded as belonging to the domestic affairs of a state'.
Furthermore, the CPC organises and participates in missions to evaluate the security status of specific countries, besides supporting long-term missions in Macedonia, Georgia, and Moldavia as well as elsewhere.
www.fes.de /handbuchmenschenrechte/HR-OSZE-E.HTML   (2979 words)

  
 Parliamentary Assembly
The Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE is the parliamentary dimension of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, whose 56 participating States span the geographical area from Vancouver to Vladivostok.
The primary task of the 320 member Assembly is to facilitate inter-parliamentary dialogue, an important aspect of the overall effort to meet the challenges of democracy throughout the OSCE area.
At the close of its fifteenth Annual Session, held from 3 to 7 July 2006, the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE elected Göran Lennmarker (Sweden) as its new President, to serve a one-year term.
oscepa.org   (267 words)

  
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs - OSCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is a pan-European security organisation whose 55 participating states cover the geographical area ranging from Vancouver to Vladivostok.
The organisation covers a wide range of security-related questions, including arms control, preventive diplomacy, confidence- and security-building measures, human rights, democratisation and economic and environmental security.
The OSCE Presidency, of one-year duration, is responsible for the Organisation's executive activity.
www.esteri.it /eng/4_28_64_266_185.asp   (387 words)

  
 european union europe throes change problem security eastern csce nato faces challenges' monde
On 23 November 1990, commenting on the conclusions of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Summit held in Paris from 19 to 21 November, the French daily newspaper Le Monde speculates on the challenges awaiting the new Europe born of the end of East—West confrontation.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was a useful framework — seen as a regional organisation of the United Nations — but had limited effect.
In the context of the OSCE, and in agreement with the European Union, the Pact on Stability in Europe (21 March 1995) aimed to reduce the risks of tension arising from the problems of minorities and frontiers in Central Europe.
www.ena.lu /europe/market-amsterdam/europe-faces-challenges-monde.htm   (1395 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Parliamentary Assembly of Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe to meet in session in Berlin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pravda.RU:Parliamentary Assembly of Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe to meet in session in Berlin
Parliamentary Assembly of Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe to meet in session in Berlin
While in Berlin, Seleznyov is scheduled to meet Wolfgang Thiersee and Klaus Wowereit, Bundestag and Bundesrat chairmen, Guido Westerwelle, chairman of the Free Democratic Party of Germany, and W.Gerke, deputy chairman of the Party of Democratic Socialism faction in the Bundestag.
newsfromrussia.com /world/2002/07/06/31927_.html   (163 words)

  
 Construction européenne et institutions de l'UE, toute l'histoire de l'Europe unie sur European NAvigator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Banquet of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki, 31 July 1975)
Organisation chart of stage II of the CSCE (Geneva, 18 September 1973 - 21 July 1975)
OSCE organisation of the municipal elections in Kosovo (28 October 2000)
www.ena.lu /europe/co-operation/indexEN.html   (1977 words)

  
 sp!ked-IT | Article | 'Responsible' regulation
Müller-Maguhn explained how ICANN and related organisations were purely technological in their original aims, but as their significance to policy, regulation and business has increased, they have inevitably become entangled in political and regulatory interests.
Originally the CSCE (Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe), the OSCE was one of the international institutions, created to contain conflict after the Second World War, which had to find new reasons for its legitimacy following the end of the Cold War.
(7) Handbook of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, 3rd edn (.pdf 949 KB), Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, March 1999, p1.
www.spiked-online.com /articles/00000006DE74.htm   (2439 words)

  
 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), international organization established as the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in 1973, during the
At the 1990 Paris summit, leaders of the member nations signed a declaration respecting the territorial integrity of Europe, an act that signaled the end of the cold war; limitations were also placed on the size of conventional forces in Europe.
US-Canadian cooperation secures supply chain: one Northeast manufacturer learned how to secure its supply chain and keep goods moving.......
www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0836841.html   (506 words)

  
 EUABC A dictionary on words related to the EU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Vehicles of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) (Photo: European Commission)
A co-operation on security and peace issues between all European nations, the Central Asian Republics, Russia, the USA and Canada.
Since the end of the Cold War, the OSCE has redefined its objectives in the Charter of Paris of 1990, and refers to a new age of democracy, peace and unity in Europe.
www.euabc.com /index.phtml?word_id=763   (117 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Parliamentary Assembly of Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe to meet in session in Berlin
Pravda.RU Parliamentary Assembly of Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe to meet in session in Berlin
The police spokesman told DPA news agency that rescuers working at the site of the fall of the Tu-154 and Boeing airliners are unsure they will be able to recover the bodies of all those killed.
Europe should play an active part in the Middle East settlement together with the USA and Russia, said Egypt's ambassador to Russia Reda Shehata at a press conference in Moscow on Thursday.
newsfromrussia.com /world/2002/07/06/31927.html   (1938 words)

  
 Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
he Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), is responsible for monitoring the compliance of nations with the Helsinki Accords.
Named after the city where the treaty was signed, it lays out areas of cooperation between nations in the fields of military security, economics and human rights.
Subsequent additions were made in Vienna, Copenhagen and Paris to further specify and ratify the accords in the field of human rights.
www.freedom.org.uk /mag/issuea02/page07a.htm   (240 words)

  
 EU Presidency 2004 Website > Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Below is a list of statements delivered by the Irish Presidency in the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Presidency statement, on behalf of the EU, on the case of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee made in the Permanent Council of the OSCE
Presidency Statement, on behalf of the EU, in response to the Report by the OSCE Representative on the Latvian- Russian Joint Commission on Military Pensioners Lt. Col.
eu2004.ie /templates/news.asp?sNavlocator=404&version=printerfriendly   (439 words)

  
 AEGiS-AFP News: OSCE urges Libya not to execute foreign medical workers - July 5, 2004
LONDON, July 5 (AFP) - The parliamentary wing of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a pan-European security body, urged Libya on Monday not to execute six foreign medical workers convicted of infecting children with AIDS.
A resolution before OSCE parliamentarians said confessions had been extracted from the accused under torture by Libyan police and security services, and that two of the interrogators had admitted that duress had been applied.
It has gradually evolved into an intermediary European forum sharing concerns with the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, the older forum on social progress and democracy, and NATO, the western defence alliance's operational arm.
www.aegis.com /news/afp/2004/AF040721.html   (496 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | OSCE envoy cancels Belarus visit
A senior official of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has cancelled a visit to Belarus.
The OSCE said in a statement that its representative on media freedom, Freimut Duve, had been due to meet independent and state-employed journalists in Belarus this week, but had cancelled the visit after a senior aide was denied a visa.
Links to more Europe stories are at the foot of the page.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1294717.stm   (154 words)

  
 The Voice of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Under the circumstances the position of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe appears to be ambiguous.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has ground for concern about the situation in Yugoslavia.
Yet the organisation should have used more unbiased approach to the resolution of the burning problems of the Balkans.
www.vor.ru /Kosovo/commentaries_454.html   (388 words)

  
 M2 Presswire: Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) summit implemented DefensePro for network ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 Irish Aid
The strong support of the Irish Government and people for independence and democracy in East Timor was placed on a deeper footing with the visit to Dili by the Taoiseach, Mr.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the largest regional security organization in the world with 55 participating States from Europe, Central Asia and North America.
The OSCE has a comprehensive approach in dealing with range of security-related issues including arms control, preventive diplomacy, confidence- and security-building measures, human rights, democratization, election monitoring and economic and environmental security.
www.dci.gov.ie /article.asp?article=285   (224 words)

  
 AEGiS-IRIN: UZBEKISTAN: OSCE States to discuss economic impact of drug trafficking
ANKARA, 13 Mar 2003 (IRIN) - The economic impact of drug trafficking will be the core topic of a two-day seminar organised by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), set to open in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent on Monday.
"This is a comprehensive security issue among all the OSCE states," he explained, noting the major economic impact it was having around the world.
According to the group, illicit production and trafficking of drugs has become one of the greatest modern blights on humanity and despite its economic impact, has so far received comparatively little attention.
www.aegis.com /news/irin/2003/IR030312.html   (785 words)

  
 U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The annual OSCE Asian Partner conference was held in Bangkok this year on April 25 and 26.
At the initiative of the Thai government, the conference focused on threats to human security.
Topics such as trafficking in persons, corruption, organized crime, small arms and light weapons, as well as threats linked to poverty and pandemic disease were discussed in depth.
www.usosce.rpo.at   (306 words)

  
 Lateline - 24/11/2004: Monitoring the Ukrainian election fallout
TONY JONES: The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe - or OSCE - has sent an election monitoring team to the Ukraine.
Mr Ahrens was also a long-time German ambassador in eastern Europe.
Quite a few such things and that adds up to the picture which I described to you in the beginning - the lack of will to organise genuine democratic elections.
www.abc.net.au /lateline/content/2004/s1250112.htm   (750 words)

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