Event archive
September 2008
Conference
High Commissioner on National Minorities to present prizes in 'Colours of Friendship' art competition in The Hague
On 30 September, High Commissioner Knut Vollebaek will open an exhibition of drawings by children from Kyrgyzstan at The Hague's City Hall, where he will also present awards to the winners.
Conference
OSCE Minorities Commissioner to address OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
The High Commissioner, Ambassador Knut Vollebaek, will attend the 13th OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw.
Conference
High Commissioner on National Minorities to assess inter-ethnic relations in Georgia
On 14-20 September 2008, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Knut Vollebaek, will visit Georgia in order to assess the inter-ethnic situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Conference
OSCE Minorities Commissioner to travel to Belgrade and Pristine
The High Commissioner will visit Belgrade and Pristine where he will meet with senior officials as well as international and civil society representatives.
July 2008
Conference
OSCE Minorities Commissioner to visit Moldova
High Commissioner Vollebaek will visit Moldova on 8-11 July 2008. He plans to meet senior government officials in Chisinau and to travel to the breakaway Dniester region to meet with de facto local authorities there.
Training
HCNM, OSCE Skopje Mission to support better education management at local level
The High Commissioner and the Education Development Team of the OSCE Spillover Mission to Skopje will be launching a new project on training for education officers in the municipalities of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
June 2008
Conference
High Commissioner Vollebaek to visit Kazakhstan, address OSCE parliamentarians
High Commissioner Vollebaek will have a number of bilateral meetings in Astana focusing on the development of multilingualism in education, the use of subtitling into minority languages in broadcasting and the minority component of…
Conference
High Commissioner Vollebaek to attend Finno-Ugric Congress in Khanty-Mansiysk
High Commissioner Vollebaek will take part in the 5th World Congress of the Finno-Ugric Peoples in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.
Conference
Foreign Minister of Norway, High Commissioner Vollebaek to address conference marking 10th anniversary of the Oslo Recommendations regarding the Linguistic Rights of National Minorities
The conference "Linguistic Rights of National Minorities - Ten Years After the Oslo Recommendations and Beyond" will be held in Oslo, Norway, on 18-19 June 2008.
Conference
High Commissioner Vollebaek to deliver Annual Minority Rights Lecture at the European Academy Bolzano/Bozen
Ambassador Vollebaek will speak about his mandate and conflict prevention activities at the European Academy Bolzano/Bozen. The Academy is one of the eminent centres for the study of autonomy and minority issues in Europe.
Conference
High Commissioner Vollebaek to address European Commission for Democracy through Law
In his statement to the Venice Commission, Ambassador Knut Vollebaek will focus on dual voting rights for persons belonging to national minorities and a new set of thematic recommendations on "National Minorities in inter-State Relations."
May 2008
Conference
OSCE Minorities Commissioner to visit Turkmenistan
On 20-22 May, the HCNM will meet Turkmenistan's leadership to discuss ways in which the High Commissioner could assist the Turkmen authorities in meeting the country's international commitments related to persons belonging to national…
Roundtable
HCNM-sponsored meeting in Kazakhstan to discuss subtitling of news programmes for minorities
The roundtable will promote the use of the news subtitling in national minority languages in Kazakhstan's broadcasting sector.
April 2008
Seminar
High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek to address Roma seminar in Oslo
Ambassador Vollebaek will focus on possible solutions to the comprehensive problems facing Roma today in order to alleviate their difficult situation.
Conference
High Commissioner Vollebaek to visit Latvia
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), Knut Vollebaek, will travel to Latvia as part of his ongoing dialogue with the Latvian Government.
Conference
HCNM-sponsored meeting on improving minority education standards in Central Asia through distance learning and IT
The meeting of the Working Group on Distance Learning and Information Technologies concludes the first round of consultations at the expert level between the education authorities of the States of Central Asia on national minority education…
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