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 Talk:Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the West, such meetings meant the possibility of tying the Soviet Union and its satellites to an international security system, thereby lessening tensions, furthering economic cooperation, and obtaining humanitarian improvements for the people of Eastern Europe.
Keen to gain international recognition of its sphere of interest and believing that such recognition would solidify its grip on its East European satellite states, the Soviet Union, beginning in the early 1970s, sponsored an initiative calling for the convening of a Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Organization_for_Security_and_Co-operation_in_Europe   (413 words)

  
 Human Rights Learning Centre: Study Guide on the European human rights system
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is the largest regional security institution in the world.
Headquartered in Vienna (Austria), the OSCE was formerly known as the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE); it was renamed OSCE in 1994.
This is a practical guide on how the European Court of Human Rights has been interpreted and how it has implemented the right for private and family life (article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights states that everyone has the right to his or her private/family life, home, and correspondence).
www.hrea.org /learn/guides/europe.html   (6210 words)

  
 UNECE - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
The Forum "Public-Private Co-operation in Industrial Restructuring" is co-organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on invitation and in cooperation with the Government of Kazakhstan.
The Forum will discuss the major issues of public-private cooperation in the course of industrial restructuring in the ECE region (including its transition economies), focusing on its regional and local aspects.
UN Economic Commission for Europe, Information Service, Palais des Nations, CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
www.unece.org /ie/wp8/almt.html   (113 words)

  
 Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, a paper prepared by International Christian Concern--Soviet Union, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Armenia, Moldova, OSCE, Communist, Orthodox church, evil empire
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, OSCE, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Armenia, Moldova
Every Western religious organization that conducts missionary, aid and other church-related activities among these OSCE countries should be encouraged to establish a liaison office to work specifically with government, if for no other reason than to establish relationships and to diminish suspicions.
There has been criticism of Article 133A of Bulgaria's "Law for Persons and the Family." This law, enacted in February 1994, required the registration of religious minority organizations.
www.persecution.org /whitepapers/comsecur.html   (3133 words)

  
 MavicaNET - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
A regional security organization whose 55 participating states are from Europe, Central Asia and North America as a primary instrument for early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation under Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations.
The first institution specifically dedicated to research on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
An electronic database of existing documentation related to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe(OSCE).
www.mavicanet.com /lite/bul/34986.html   (266 words)

  
 OSCE Chair Calls on FYR Macedonia Parties to Resolve Differences
The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, appealed June 21 to all parties in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia "to put aside their differences and make a real effort to compromise" on a political solution, according to the following OSCE press release:
VIENNA, 21 June 2001 (OSCE) -- The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, today appealed to all parties in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to put aside their differences and make a real effort to compromise.
He proposed a more active role for the OSCE as the organization under whose auspices the Pact operated, and he offered support, through OSCE Institutions and Missions, in the identification of the highest priorities with the strongest regional impact.
www.usembassy.it /file2001_06/alia/a1062118.htm   (911 words)

  
 Organizations like NATO
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is a regional security organization whose 55 participating States are from Europe, Central Asia and North America.
According to the Charter, the UN has four purposes: to maintain international peace and security, to develop friendly relations among nations, to cooperate in solving international problems and in promoting respect for human rights, and to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
Today, WEU has the necessary instruments to undertake European-led crisis management operations and is working to develop them further as preparation for the establishment within the European Union of a crisis management capability.
www.mtholyoke.edu /~sbelbase/natoorgs.html   (388 words)

  
 Security and Co-operation in Europe, Organization for --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
organization of representatives of virtually all the states of Europe, as well as the United States and Canada, committed to formalizing decisions on important questions affecting the security and stability of the European continent as a whole.
formerly (1972–94) Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe organization of representatives of virtually all the states of Europe, as well as the United States and Canada, committed to formalizing decisions on important questions affecting the security and stability of the European continent as a whole.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9066532   (914 words)

  
 Vienna Conference Calls for Greater Anti-Terrorism Cooperation
The conference was co-hosted by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
The meeting, co-hosted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), adopted a Vienna Declaration, reaffirming the central role of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) in the global effort to combat terrorism.
A declaration issued at the end of an international conference in Vienna March 11-12 calls for greater cooperation among international, regional and sub-regional organizations to counter terrorism.
www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2004/03-15-5.htm   (559 words)

  
 Erga Omnes - OSCE - Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Erga Omnes - OSCE - Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
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www.ergaomnes.net /frame.asp?link=9652   (27 words)

  
 NATO: Anachronism or Answer - An Argument for Collective Defense
The Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) (formerly the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, CSCE) was established in 1972 as a process of political consultation which did not establish a permanent forum until 1990.
As a collective security organization, NATO will be doomed as an alliance, as have all other collective security organizations since Britain and France watched Mussolini annex their fellow-alliance member Abyssinia in 1936.
NATO Facts and Figures, p.10, 38; North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Interlocking Institutions, downloaded from NATO Gopher, November 1994.
www.fas.org /man/eprint/mcnern.htm   (27 words)

  
 ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Uzbekistan: Shanghai Group should condemn massacre
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization's member states -- Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan -- should call on Uzbekistan to allow an independent, international investigation into the violence in Andijan, as has been urged by the United Nations, European Union, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the U.S. government and others.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, was founded in 1996 as the Shanghai Five to meet the need for regional security cooperation and confidence-building.
The Shanghai group has pledged to forward the goals of political and economic cooperation in the region and collective security interests, including counterterrorism.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MIRA-6DY38C?OpenDocument   (619 words)

  
 [28 Jul 1998] GA/SM/51 : ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SAYS REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS CAN HELP MAKE CONFLICT PREVENTION EFFECTIVE PEACE MAINTENANCE INSTRUMENT
Meanwhile, resolution 52/22 acknowledged the increasing contribution of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security in its region through activities in early warning and preventive diplomacy.
The Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization is increasingly viewed as a promising model of subregional cooperation, which together with other subregional structures, may become an important element of the new European security order in the twenty-first century.
The Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization provides additional channels for multilateral and bilateral dialogue, and brings around the table neighbouring countries that have often viewed each other with suspicion and distrust.
www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1998/19980728.gasm51.html   (1520 words)

  
 Black Sea Economic Cooperation Meeting
Recalling that BSEC member states were also members of Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Sener said that a comprehensive cooperation process started between the two institutions.
Underlining the fact that the organization also had direct connection with security issues such as fight with terrorism, drug smuggling and organized crime, Sener said that Working Group which acted to determine the contributions of BSEC in the field of strengthening regional security and stability, continued its studies.
Pointing out that BSEC as an economic institution encouraged development of trade and economy among member states, Sener said that the organization also contributed to the peace and stability process in the Black Sea region.
www.turkishpress.com /turkishpress/news.asp?ID=14613   (1520 words)

  
 good7497.htm
Goodby defines collective security as "a policy that commits governments to develop and enforce broadly accepted international rules and to seek to do so through collective action legitimized by representative international organizations."[p.
The OSCE was formed in 1990 as the permanent successor to the Conference on Security and Cooperation.
The North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC) was formed in 1991 to provide a link between NATO and former Warsaw Treaty Organization member states.
www.colorado.edu /conflict/peace/example/good7497.htm   (1520 words)

  
 Labour Law - Home Page -
U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna
U.S. Mission to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
www.globallabourlaw.com /html/govins/usa/gi_usa.htm   (1520 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Uzbekistan
It subsequently joined the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Partnership for Peace (PFP) program of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was established in 1994 to strengthen relations between NATO and non-NATO states.
In 2001 Uzbekistan joined with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan in forming the Central Asian Cooperation Organization (CACO), which provides a framework for addressing regional and cross-border issues, such as the sharing of water and energy resources.
Together with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan contributes military personnel to a Central Asian peacekeeping force that is reserved solely for international peacekeeping missions of the United Nations (UN).
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551989_7/Uzbekistan.html   (1191 words)

  
 Pravda.RU CSTO Secretary General urges Tbilisi and Tskhinvali to use no force
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, who is Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), voiced, in a RIA Novosti interview, the necessity to protect national minorities' rights in Latvia and Estonia More details...
Nikolai Bordyuzha, Secretary General of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization: Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan), has called on both sides of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict to refrain from the use of force More details...
Nikolai Bordyuzha, Secretary General of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization: Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan), has called on both sides of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict to refrain from the use of force.
newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/07/08/54870.html   (1191 words)

  
 Baku-Capital City of Azerbaijan
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
Oil Export Delivery - Present oil exports, primarily to the former Soviet Republics, are primarily conducted via rail to the Black Sea ports of Novorossisk in Russia and Odessa in Ukraine; a lesser amount is shipped by tanker across the Caspian Sea to northern Iran.
Recently, several cultural and social Azerbaijani organizations have emerged in North America that are ac tive in promoting Azerbaijani-American relations.
www.baku.com   (1191 words)

  
 Statesmen Links
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPNAL)
Customs Cooperation Council (CCC): see World Customs Organization
www.worldstatesmen.org /LINKS.html   (1191 words)

  
 yasaTurkey
On the very same day the Bosphorus Statement, a commitment to observe the principles of the Helsinki Final Communiqué and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was made by the parties to the Istanbul Declaration.
Following the end of the Cold War era, the possibility of converting the Black Sea basin into a area of economic cooperation and prosperity was extensively discussed.
The Black Sea Cooperation Organization is structured to cooperate on five different platforms.
www.tiid.org /yasaturkey_11_biznes.asp   (1191 words)

  
 Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation - ACTIVITIES
The very philosophy — sub-regional economic cooperation is an effective confidence-building measure — serves as a building block in the new European architecture, contributing to indivisible, comprehensive and cooperative security.
Therefore, in 1996, an Inter-Parliamentary Conference on the Black Sea Environmental Protection was jointly organized in Istanbul by the PABSEC and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, with the participation of parliamentarians from 24 countries, representatives of regional and international organizations, as well as prominent international experts.
It is in this framework, that the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, acting in the spirit to turn the Black Sea into the sea of peace, stability and prosperity, provides an instrumental framework for interaction and dialogue on a wide range of economic issues and initiatives for the eleven member countries.
www.pabsec.org /menu6.html   (1191 words)

  
 ISCIP - Perspective
Such a sub-system "could emerge under the aegis of OSCE" (9) (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe).
It supports a new system of European-Atlantic security in which the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe would become coordinator.
At the 1994 meeting in Budapest of what was then called the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Russia failed to obtain support for such a metamorphosis which would have subordinated NATO to the CSCE.
www.bu.edu /iscip/vol8/Staar.html   (2853 words)

  
 U.S. Endorses Efforts of Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe - US Department of State
The United States welcomes continued efforts by the countries of Southeastern Europe to strengthen regional cooperation on issues such as trade facilitation and border management and security, according to U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Stephan Minikes.
He said the United States has strongly endorsed steps taken by the Stability Pact countries to cooperate more closely on border management and security – which includes efforts to fight organized crime -- as well as their June 10 agreement to upgrade the existing network of bilateral trade agreements into one regional agreement.
Chairman, we wish Dr. Busek all the best - both in his capacity as the Special Coordinator for the Stability Pact, and in his role as the Chairman of the 2005 Alpbach Forum.
usinfo.state.gov /eur/Archive/2005/Jun/22-59123.html   (2853 words)

  
 International Relations and Security Network ISN - International Security Forum ISF
To promote practical cooperation between the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) member states
The ISF is designed as a forum for discussing ways to increase communication and cooperation between institutions engaged in research related to international security in Europe and North America.
The International Security Forum (ISF) was launched as the Institutes and Security Dialog in Zurich in 1994 and has since been at the forefront of cooperation among international security professionals in East and West.
www.isn.ethz.ch /securityforum   (2853 words)

  
 Security Enviroment in Asia-Pacfic:
However, security cooperation at bilateral, trilateral and sub-regional levels has been growing rapidly in the past decade and more, which is conducive to a better security environment in the region and provides good opportunities for economic development in China and improved relations with her neighbors.
China supports regional security dialogue and cooperation, actively participating in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), Council on Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region (CSCAP), Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), Academic Symposium of China, the United States and Japan and other activities.
At this important juncture, China and the United States need to work together and in better cooperation for continued progress on and seek a final solution to the Korean issue.
www.ndu.edu /inss/symposia/pacific2001/ruanpaper.htm   (3755 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
The composition of the 15-member CEC was significantly altered with input from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe in preparation for the 2 November parliamentary election (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 27 August and 2 September 2003).
The Moscow human rights organization Memorial has issued a report asserting that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained several Turkmen diplomats in Moscow on 17 August for allegedly engaging in activities not compatible with their diplomatic status, centrasia.ru reported on 4 September.
In a direct challenge to the foreign-owned ArmenTel telecommunications firm, the Armenian government on 4 September sought to revoke the firm's legal monopoly on all forms of telecommunication in Armenia, according to Azg and RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/09/050903.asp   (8987 words)

  
 UN Chronicle: Issue 4, 1999: Perspective
But success can only come in an atmosphere of cooperation and shared effort.
Finally, there is the improved synergy that should develop between the United Nations and several European security institutions.
The United Nations as a global organization and Europe as a regional one have much to gain from working closely together in crisis prevention.
www.un.org /Pubs/chronicle/1999/issue4/0499p76_2.htm   (1065 words)

  
 International Constitutional Law - Organizations
CSCE: Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; see Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
ACCT: Agence de Cooperation Culturelle et Technique; see Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation.
GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council = GO) Chaired by Saudi Arabia, this council coordinates the oppostion against Iran, Iraq, and Israel.
www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/gongo.html   (1065 words)

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