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1973 Jul 3 |
The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) opened in Helsinki with 35 states sending representatives. Links: EU, Finland, OSCE 
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1975 Aug 1 |
A 35-nation summit in Helsinki, Finland, concluded with the signing the Helsinki Accords, dealing with European security, human rights and East-West contacts. The Helsinki Final Act, signed by 35 states, was an attempt to improve the relations between the Communist bloc and the West. The Soviet Union reluctantly signed as a token of East -West détente. Links: Russia, Finland, USSR, OSCE
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1992 Jul |
Yugoslavia was suspended from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for fomenting war in Bosnia. Links: Bosnia, Yugoslavia, OSCE
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1995 Jan 1 |
The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), formed in 1973, was renamed the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Links: EU, OSCE
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1996 Jul 14 |
If elections are to proceed in Bosnia, Swiss foreign minister Flavio Cotti must determine that they can be free and fair by this date. He is the chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Links: Bosnia, Switzerland, OSCE
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1996 Dec 27 |
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), led by former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, recognized the Yugoslavia opposition victories in the Nov 17 local elections. Links: Spain, Yugoslavia, OSCE
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1996 Dec |
The Lisbon Summit of Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe chose Azerbaijan’s argument for territorial integrity over Armenia’s argument for self-determination in Nagorno-Karabakh. Links: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Spain, OSCE
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1997 Nov 22 1997 Nov 23 |
In Bosnia the Serb Democratic Party of Radovan Karadzic won 24 seats vs. 15 seats for the allied Radical party of Biljana Plavsic. The elections were organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Links: Bosnia, OSCE
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1998 Oct 15 |
The Contact Group in Paris approved the Kosovo agreement. In Vienna the 54-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe agreed to oversee the 2,000-member ground verification mission. Serbian authorities suspended the Nasa Borba newspaper. Links: France, Serbia, Kosovo, OSCE, Journalism
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1999 Nov 18 |
Pres. Clinton at a conference in Turkey of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe urged Pres. Yeltsin to stop the bombing and rocket attacks in Chechnya. Links: Turkey, Russia, USA, Chechnya, OSCE, ClintonB
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1999 Nov 19 |
In Turkey the 54-nation summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) closed with a treaty that restricted the number of tanks, planes and artillery of every army across Europe. Links: Turkey, OSCE
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2003 Jan 13 |
Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer took over as head of the 55-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for 2003. He said the Vienna-based OSCE would sharpen its efforts to improve border security and police cooperation and cut off the flow of cash to terrorist groups. Links: Netherlands, OSCE
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2005 Jun 8 |
A 2-day conference on racism sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) opened in Cordoba, Spain. Links: Spain, OSCE
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2007 Nov 16 |
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said its election observers would be unable to monitor next month's Russian parliamentary balloting because Moscow had refused to issue them visas. All 56 OSCE member countries, including Russia, agreed in 1990 to invite international observers to monitor their elections. Links: Russia, OSCE
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2008 Feb 7 |
The OSCE’s election monitoring organization said that it will not observe Russia's presidential election next month because of the "severe restrictions" imposed by the Kremlin. Links: Russia, OSCE
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2008 Dec 22 |
OSCE talks on the Georgia collapsed, when Russia demanded the group join Moscow in recognizing the statehood of the provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The mission will expire on Dec 31. Links: Georgia, Russia, Abkhazia, OSCE, South Ossetia
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2009 Jun 29 |
Representatives of a 500-member team from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said that despite improvement Albania has not complied with international standards in its parliamentary elections dues to the politicization of the process and the political mistrust. Links: Albania, OSCE
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2010 Jan 18 |
The OSCE, Europe's main security and human rights watchdog, said that Turkey was blocking some 3,700 Internet sites for "arbitrary and political reasons" and urged reforms to show its commitment to freedom of expression. Links: Turkey, EU, Internet, OSCE
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2010 Feb 28 |
Tajikistan held parliamentary elections. The Central Elections Commission said that 85% of the country's 3.5 million eligible voters had cast ballots. The main government-backed party was set to coast to the easiest of victories. President Emomali Rakhmon's two-decade grip on power remained as strong as ever. An initial tally showed the government-backed party with 71.7% and the main opposition Islamic Revival Party with just 7.7%. Int’l. monitors from the OSCE said that while the vote was peaceful, it was marred by ballot-box stuffing and proxy voting. Links: Tajikistan, OSCE
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2010 Nov 10 |
In Kyrgyzstan a new and more powerful parliament convened for the first time, an important step in the former Soviet nation's rough path toward democratic reform. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said Kyrgyzstan should build on the new constitution’s provision of media freedoms and decriminalize defamation and libel. Links: Kyrgyzstan, OSCE
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2010 Nov 30 |
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton touched down in Astana, Kazakhstan, to attend the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) summit on a trip through Central Asia that will also see her visit Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, as well as Bahrain. Links: Kazakhstan, USA, OSCE
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2010 Dec 1 |
Kazakhstan began hosting a 2-day summit of the OSCE, the first in 11 years, seeking to revamp the organisation's ability to react to security crises. Links: Kazakhstan, OSCE
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2010 Dec 31 |
Belarus declared that Europe's top rights watchdog would no longer be able to work in the country, after the OSCE condemned the conduct of this month's presidential election. Links: Belarus, OSCE
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2011 Apr 23 |
Max van der Stoel (86), former Dutch human rights watchdog for Iraq and the first High Commissioner on National Minorities at the 54-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), died. Links: Netherlands, OSCE
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2011 Jul 8 |
A 225-page international review showing wide variances of Internet freedom gave Finland the best marks for making citizens' access to a broadband connection a legal right. The report was presented at OSCE headquarters in Vienna. Links: Austria, Finland, Internet, OSCE
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2012 Jan 16 |
International election monitors said that Kazakhstan's parliamentary election failed to meet the fundamental principles of a democratic vote. Links: Kazakhstan, OSCE
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2014 Mar 6 |
Poland's defense minister said a mission of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has been stopped from entering Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula by unidentified men in military fatigues. Links: Ukraine, Poland, OSCE
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2014 Mar 8 |
Russia was reported to be reinforcing its military presence in Crimea as Moscow's foreign minister ruled out any dialogue with Ukraine's new authorities, whom he dismissed as puppets. Warning shots were fired when an unarmed OSCE military observer mission was turned back while trying to cross into Ukraine's Crimea region. Links: Russia, Ukraine, OSCE, Crimea
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2014 Mar 11 |
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said it is sending a new team to observe military developments in tense regions of Ukraine and that the new team's mandate has been extended beyond Crimea to eastern Ukraine. Pro-Russian forces rebuffed previous attempts to monitor Crimea. Links: Ukraine, OSCE, Crimea
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2014 Mar 14 |
Russia called on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to send its observers to monitor Crimea's controversial referendum on independence from Ukraine. Links: Russia, Ukraine, OSCE, Crimea
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2014 Apr 25 |
Ukrainian special forces launched a second phase of their operation in the east of the country by mounting a full blockade of the rebel-held city of Slaviansk A Ukrainian military helicopter exploded at a base near the eastern town of Kramatorsk after being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. In Slovyansk pro-Russian activists detained an eight-member team traveling under the auspices of the OSCE, accusing them of being NATO spies. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2014 May 3 |
In eastern Ukraine pro-Russia insurgents released the seven OSCE military observers and five Ukrainian assistants who had been seized on April 25. A team member from Sweden was also seized but was released earlier. 10 people were reported killed in a confrontation with soldiers on the outskirts of Slovyansk. A three-day mourning period was declared in Odessa for those that died a day earlier. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2014 May 14 |
The Ukrainian government reluctantly agreed to launch talks on decentralizing power as part of an OSCE backed peace plan, but did not invite its main foes, the pro-Russia insurgents who have declared independence in the east. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2014 May 29 |
In Ukraine rebels in the east shot down a government military helicopter amid heavy fighting around Slovyansk in the Donetsk region, killing at least 12 soldiers including Gen. Serhiy Kulchytskiy. An insurgent leader confirmed that his fighters were holding four missing observers and their Ukrainian translator from the OSCE and promised they would be released shortly. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2014 Jun 27 |
In Ukraine pro-Russian separatist leaders and mediators for the Kiev government met in the city of Donetsk in new consultations on ending the fighting in Ukraine's Russian-speaking east. President Petro Poroshenko told EU leaders he was extending a ceasefire in east Ukraine for three days. Rebels in the southeast released four out of eight OSCE observers, captured over a month ago. Links: Ukraine, EU, OSCE
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2014 Jun 28 |
In Ukraine pro-Russian insurgents released the last four OSCE observers held since their seizure in late May in Luhansk. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2014 Jul 14 |
Russia’s foreign ministry said it has invited monitors from the OSCE European security and rights body to two of its border crossings with Ukraine as a sign of goodwill. A NATO military officer said Russia has been building up its forces again along the Ukrainian border and now has an estimated 10,000-12,000 troops in the area. Links: Russia, Ukraine, OSCE
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2014 Nov 13 |
Ukraine's representative to the OSCE security and rights body told an Austrian newspaper it was now hardly possible to speak of a ceasefire, citing 2,400 alleged breaches of the truce by rebels. He said 4 Ukrainian servicemen had been killed in the past 24 hours. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2014 Dec 1 |
The OSCE said Ukrainian government troops and Russian-backed separatist forces in the Luhansk region have agreed on a new cease-fire to start Dec 5. Links: Russia, Ukraine, OSCE
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2014 Dec 25 |
An agreement to swap 125 Ukrainian servicemen for 225 rebels held by Kiev followed peace talks between envoys of Ukraine, Russia, the separatists and European security watchdog OSCE. Links: Russia, Ukraine, OSCE
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2015 Jan 31 |
Ukrainian former president Leonid Kuchma, a Russian diplomat and an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) official met at a state residence in the Belarussian capital Minsk for a new round of peace talks. Links: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, OSCE
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2015 Feb 16 |
The leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine said that observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) must have "free access" for their work in eastern Ukraine. Links: Ukraine, France, Germany, OSCE
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2015 Feb 17 |
In eastern Ukraine pro-Russian rebels and government forces fought street-to-street in Debaltseve and refused to pull back their heavy guns, all but scuppering hopes that a European-brokered peace deal will end months of conflict. Rebels barred OSCE observers from entering Debaltseve. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2015 Mar 12 |
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said it is to roughly double the size of its observer mission in eastern Ukraine to up to 1,000 personnel. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2015 Jun 10 |
Amnesty Int’l. said Azerbaijan has blocked a visit at which it planned to highlight human rights abuses in the south Caucasian republic. Azerbaijan prepared to open the inaugural European Games on June 12. The OSCE said Azerbaijan has ordered it to close its Baku office ahead of the European Games. Links: Azerbaijan, OSCE
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2015 Oct 2 |
The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine met in Paris to consolidate a fragile peace in Ukraine. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said monitors have spotted a Russian mobile TOS-1 'Buratino' weapons system in rebel-held Ukraine this week. Links: Russia, Ukraine, France, Germany, OSCE
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2015 Oct 26 |
Ukraine's pro-Russian insurgents said they had expelled two ceasefire monitors from the separatist Lugansk region last week. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) denied the report. One soldier was killed when government positions came under fire from the direction of the Donetsk airport. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2015 Nov 2 |
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) charged in a damning report that Turkey's election was marred by a media crackdown, violence and other security concerns. Links: Turkey, OSCE
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2016 Sep 21 |
Representatives of Ukraine and separatist rebels agreed to pull back troops and weapons from several areas in eastern Ukraine. The agreement signed in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, applies to three specific areas and will be monitored by observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Links: Belarus, Ukraine, OSCE
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2016 Dec 28 |
International observer body the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) confirmed being the victim of a "major" cyber-attack in early November. The Russian hacker’s group APT28 was believed to be behind the attack. Links: Russia, OSCE, Cybersecurity
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2017 Mar 16 |
European security watchdog OSCE prolonged its monitoring mission to Ukraine by one year until March 2018. The unarmed, civilian mission with more than 700 international observers seeks to reduce tensions and report on the situation on the ground. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2017 Apr 23 |
In eastern Ukraine an American member of the OSCE's arms monitoring mission died and two others were wounded after their vehicle was blown up by a mine in the separatist Luhansk region. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2018 Apr 11 |
Azerbaijanis voted in a snap presidential election boycotted by the main opposition parties and set to extend the autocratic rule of President Ilham Aliyev. Pres. Aliyev (56) won with more than 86 percent of the vote. The next day International monitors for the OSCE said the presidential election lacked genuine competition and was held in an environment of curtailed rights and freedoms. Links: Azerbaijan, OSCE
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2018 Jul 10 |
An official with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe defended the creation of a glossary that offers journalists on both sides of ethnically divided Cyprus alternatives to words that are deemed offensive or negative in their reporting of the island's long-standing conflict. Links: Cyprus, OSCE, Language
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2018 Aug 2 |
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said that more than 160 people have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine since the beginning of the year. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2018 Sep 10 |
In Poland Europe's largest human rights conference, organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), opened in Warsaw. Turkey's government was the only country not attending because it was not allowed to prevent the participation of non-governmental organizations. Links: Turkey, Poland, OSCE
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2018 Oct 18 |
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said it had seen weapons being transported from Russia to rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine over the last week, contradicting Moscow's claim it is not arming separatists. Links: Russia, Ukraine, OSCE
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2020 Dec 4 |
Veteran German diplomat Helga Schmid, a key behind-the-scenes negotiator of the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, was named as the new administrative head of the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Links: Germany, OSCE
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2021 Oct 17 |
The Organization for Security and Cooperation on Europe (OSCE) said it has suspended its monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine following protests near its headquarters in separatist-controlled Donetsk. Links: Ukraine, OSCE
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2022 Feb 13 |
US staff at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) started to leave the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, amid fears of a possible Russian invasion. Links: Ukraine, USA, OSCE
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