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OSCE SECRETARY GENERAL HOSTS MEETING TO PROMOTE CO-ORDINATED RESPONSE TO DEVELOPMENTS IN SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN Added 2011-12-06 VILNIUS, 6 December 2011 – A meeting of international and regional organizations to promote closer co-ordination of responses to changes in the southern Mediterranean was held by OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and UN...
PRESS BRIEFING BY DIRECTOR OF OSCE/ODIHR Added 2011-12-06 The Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, gave a briefing to journalists on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial council in Vilnius on 6 December 2011.
US CRITICISES RUSSIA VOTE, GERMANY URGES IMPROVEMENT (Reuters, 6 December 2011) Added 2011-12-06 By Arshad Mohammed and Nerijus AdomaitisVILNIUS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested on Tuesday that Russia's elections were neither free nor fair, and Germany urged Moscow to make democratic improvements.For a...
OSCE OBSERVERS HOPE TO OVERSEE RUSSIA PRESIDENTIAL VOTE (Reuters, 6 Decembe 2011) Added 2011-12-06 VILNIUS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Europe's main elections monitoring group said on Tuesday it hoped to be able to oversee Russia's presidential vote next year despite its crititicsm of the conduct of last weekend's parliamentary election.Moscow's...
OPENING STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF LITHUANIA, OSCE CHAIRMAN-IN-OFFICE AUDRONIUS AŽUBALIS AT THE 18TH OSCE MINISTERIAL COUNCIL (Vilnius, 6 December 2011) Added 2011-12-06   President Grybauskaitė,Ministers,Excellencies,Ladies and Gentlemen,Welcome to the heart of the OSCE area: half-way between Vancouver and Vladivostok. It is a pleasure to see all of you here in Vilnius. To my Parliamentary Assembly...
JOINT STATEMENT BY THE HEADS OF DELEGATION OF THE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIR COUNTRIES AND THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN Added 2011-12-06 VILNIUS, 6 December 2011 - On the occasion of the OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting in Vilnius, the Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries (Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, Secretary of State of the...
CLINTON FAULTS RUSSIA OVER VOTE, DENOUNCES BELARUS (AFP, 6 December 2011) Added 2011-12-06 by Lachlan Carmichael VILNIUS, December 6, 2011 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Russia to account Tuesday for flawed elections and denounced ex-Soviet Belarus for persecuting democracy campaigners, sending a signal by meeting...
ONLINE REPORTERS, ACTIVISTS NEED PROTECTION: CLINTON (AFP, 6 December 2011) Added 2011-12-06 VILNIUS, December 6, 2011 (AFP) - Human rights must be defended online as fiercely as in the real world, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Lithuania Tuesday."We must recognise that rights exercised in cyber space deserve as much...
CLINTON DEMANDS BELARUS FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS (Reuters, 6 December 2011) Added 2011-12-06  VILNIUS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded on Tuesday that Belarus release political prisoners or continue to face economic sanctions and travel bans on members of the government of President Alexander...
US SUGGESTS RUSSIAN ELECTIONS NEITHER FREE NOR FAIR (Reuters, 6 December 2011) Added 2011-12-06 By Arshad Mohammed and Nerijus AdomaitisVILNIUS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested Russia's elections were neither free nor fair as she made a broad plea on Tuesday for digital freedoms at a European security...