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OSCE Permanent Council holds special meeting, Georgian Foreign Minister addresses delegations

Georgian Foreign Minister, Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili, addresses a special meeting of the OSCE's Permanent Council, in Vienna 28 August 2008. (OSCE/Mikhail Evstafiev)

VIENNA, 28 August 2008 - The OSCE Permanent Council convened for an extraordinary session today in Vienna to discuss the Georgian-Russian conflict, with Georgian Foreign Minister Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili addressing the participating States...

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OSCE-supported Kosovo film festival continues to gain popularity

Film fans pack into Prizren's coffee bars, having come to see Dokufest, Kosovo's largest international documentary and short film festival, taking place in the town from 4-10 August 2008. (OSCE/Hasan Sopa)

This year's Dokufest, Kosovo's biggest documentary and short film festival, was the most popular yet, with a few thousand fans and artists coming to Prizren to see nearly 140 films.

OSCE, BBC training improves professionalism of Azerbaijani public broadcaster

BBC trainer Richard Lucas (centre) with staff of the Music Department of Azerbaijan's public broadcaster ITV, part of a management training workshop supported by the OSCE Office in Baku, 2 July 2008. (OSCE/Vusal Behbudov)

A comprehensive training programme run by the OSCE Office in Baku and the BBC is helping to raise journalistic standards at ITV, Azerbaijan's young public TV and radio station.

OSCE in Croatia donates surplus office, IT equipment to local schools

School librarian Maja Knezevic together with children from Plaski Primary School who are using computers donated by the former Mission to Croatia's Field Office in Karlovac, 15 December 2007. (OSCE)

Local schools in Croatia are benefiting from donations of surplus office and computer equipment following the closure of the OSCE Mission in the country at the end of 2007.

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A demonstration by a fire-fighting aircraft of Ukraine's Ministry of Emergency Situations, flown by former military personnel retrained for civilian aviation under a project supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Nizhyn, July 2008 (OSCE/Oleksandr Gladkyy)

A demonstration by a fire-fighting aircraft of Ukraine's Ministry of Emergency Situations, flown by former military personnel retrained for civilian aviation under a project supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Nizhyn, July 2008 (OSCE/Oleksandr Gladkyy)

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DOCUMENT: Permanent Council Decision on increasing the number of military monitoring officers in the OSCE Mission to Georgia

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Final Report on the 1 June 2008 Parliamentary Elections in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

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