General Carlo Jean (centre), a Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, meets with representatives of the Parties during the Third Review Conference on the Implementation of Article II of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Dayton Peace Agreement of 14 December 1995), held in Vienna from 19 to 21 February 2001.

In early 2003, the Austrian Ambassador to Luxembourg, Christian Strohal (on the right), succeeds Ambassador Gerard Stoudmann as Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

One of the main priorities of the OCSE Mission in Kosovo (OMIK) during 2000 is the organisation of the municipal elections held on 28 October 2000. The electoral process is supervised by a group of observers led by the Council of Europe.

As part of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) [cf. UN Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999], the OCSE Mission in Kosovo (OMIK) is tasked with setting up a police school in Vucitrn, site of the former police academy, and with providing the initial training for future members of the new Kosovo Police Service. The school’s first intake of new recruits begin basic training on 6 September 1999.

Bruce George (centre), Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, visits a polling station during the Kosovo Assembly elections held on 17 November 2001 and organised by the OCSE Mission in Kosovo (OMIK).

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly meets twice a year. The ‘Winter Meeting’ takes place in the Hofburg Congress Centre, Vienna, usually in February. The location of the July ‘Annual Session’ changes from year to year. This photo was taken during the 11th Annual Session, held in Berlin in July 2002.

Marcin Swiecicki (Poland), Coordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities from February 2002 to June 2005.

Ján Kubiš (Slovakia), Secretary General of the OSCE from 15 June 1999 to 20 June 2005.

On 10 July 2003, the European Convention meets in Brussels in order to wind up its activities.

David Russell-Johnston, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1999 to 2001. Photo taken at the ceremony held on 5 May 1999 in Strasbourg to mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the organisation.