Roland Eggleston

Also by Roland Eggleston

• June 16, 2017

  Obituary: Helmut Kohl, Germany's Reunifier, Dies At 87

  Helmut Kohl served as chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990, and of a reunited Germany to 1998, the longest-serving German chancellor since Otto von Bismarck.

• February 10, 2007

  U.S. Senator Seeks Greater European Role In Afghanistan

  McCain, right, during today's security conference (Courtesy Photo) MUNICH, February 10, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. Senator John McCain today called on the United States' European allies to do more in the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

• February 06, 2006

  Worries Over Nuclear Program Stir Security Conference

  The Munich security conference was billed as a chance to discuss NATO's future, but events seemed to overtake the proceedings and the focus shifted rapidly to Iran's controversial nuclear program.

• December 06, 2005

  Final Text Nixed After Dispute On Russian Troops In Moldova

  A meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has ended without a final document, after Russia objected to a passage concerning its troops in the breakaway Transdniester region.

• December 02, 2005

  OSCE: U.S.-Russia Confrontation Expected At Meeting

  Russia has balked at fulfilling its OSCE commitment to withdraw its troops from Transdniester (RFE/RL) The stage is set for a confrontation between Russia and the United States and its allies at next week's meeting in Slovenia of the foreign ministers of the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The conference (5-6 December) in Ljubljana will review negotiations that took place during the year to meet Russia's demands for changes in the way the OSCE operates. Diplomats say Russia has achieved a few of its goals but major changes -- particularly on election monitoring -- have been forcefully rejected by the United States. Moscow’s uneasy relations with Georgia and Moldova are also expected to be discussed in the closed-door talks with Russia that take place during the conference.

• November 16, 2005

  Leaders Appeal For Understanding, Tolerance

  A major international conference on Islam has issued strong appeals from Muslim leaders to recognize international terrorism as simply "terrorism."

• September 14, 2005

  U.S. Rejects Some Russian Demands At OSCE

  Vienna, 14 September 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The United States has rejected several Russian proposals for changing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

• September 12, 2005

  OSCE: Diplomats Review Proposals For Reform

  Top diplomats from the 55 member-states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meet in Vienna today and tomorrow to review proposals for making it more effective. Negotiations have been under way since the beginning of the year to meet Russian criticisms that the organization is dominated by Western policies and that some of its operations need to be modernized. But Western diplomats reject any attempt to weaken the OSCE’s committment to human rights and free and fair elections. This week's meeting is expected to approve a set of recommendations that will be considered by the OSCE foreign ministers conference in Ljubljana in December.

• June 30, 2005

  Europe: OSCE Begins Talks On Proposed Reforms

  An expert panel is due today in Vienna to release recommendations for reforming the Organization For Security And Cooperation In Europe (OSCE).

• May 10, 2005

  World War II -- 60 Years After: Everyday Germans Recount Horrors Of War's Last Days

  As the world commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, German media revisited the war with a flood of personal testimonies of everyday civilians who survived the last days of the war. Some tell of Nazi execution squads who hanged or shot those who lay down their weapons as the Allied forces approached. Women have broken their silence to tell of the rapes that became commonplace as German cities fell.

• April 26, 2005

  Germany: Foreign Minister Under Pressure Over Ukrainian Immigration

  The political future of Germany's foreign minister is hanging in the balance. Joschka Fischer testified yesterday about lax visa regulations that allowed thousands of immigrants from Ukraine to enter the country in 2000-03. The political opposition says the influx raised the number of illegal workers in Germany and led to an increase in crime. Fischer’s fate could determine the future of Germany's governing coalition.

• April 23, 2005

  World: OSCE Debates Its Election Monitoring

  The OSCE -- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe -- has come under sharp criticism from Russia on the criteria it uses and conclusions it reaches in monitoring elections. Russia charges that the process is politically weighted. Leaders of the organization have just completed a two-day review in Vienna. Debate was lively but few minds appear to have been changed about the way the OSCE decides whether elections are fair and democratic.

• April 22, 2005

  No Agreement On Changing OSCE's Election Monitoring

  Vienna, 22 April 2005 (RFE/RL) -- An international conference on monitoring elections ended in Vienna today without reaching agreement on Russian demands for changes in the methods of assessing the fairness of elections in postcommunist states.

• April 22, 2005

  OSCE: Election Experts Debate Russian Criticism

  The OSCE has Putin and Veshnyakov talking (file photo) Vienna, 22 April 2005 (RFE/RL) -- More than 200 international election experts are today wrapping up their two-day meeting in Vienna during which they discussed Russian criticism of election monitoring by the OSCE.

• April 22, 2005

  Russia: OSCE's Election Monitoring Criticized By Russia

  The OSCE declared last year's Ukrainian elections to be severely flawed; Moscow found them to be fair Vienna, 21 April 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Russia told an international conference in Vienna today that election-monitoring in post-communist countries was sometimes influenced by the political goals of other countries.

• April 15, 2005

  Georgia: OSCE To Begin Training Georgian Border Guards Next Week

  The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) begins a program on 18 April to train more than 800 Georgian border guards in modern methods of controlling the frontiers. The program will continue until the end of the year.

• March 18, 2005

  Europe: Vienna Conference Discussing Trafficking In Children

  International experts are meeting in Vienna today to discuss what can be done to stop trafficking in young girls and boys. These children are often taken by criminal gangs to work for low wages in sweatshops or are forced into prostitution.

• March 11, 2005

  Belarus: OSCE Dismayed Over Media Restrictions

  A senior official of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has denounced authorities in Belarus over their treatment of independent media. The OSCE's special commissioner for the media, Miklos Haraszti, said today that restrictions have effectively shut down many non-state media outlets. His statements accompany the release of a broad assessment of media freedoms in Belarus, where President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has kept a tight hold on power for more than a decade.

• February 14, 2005

  Europe/U.S.: German Chancellor Appears To Question NATO's Relevance

  Schroeder (center, in file photo) surprised many with his NATO statements German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder surprised participants at an international security conference over the weekend by suggesting the NATO alliance is outdated. Speaking through Germany's defense minister, Schroeder told the meeting in the German city of Munich that NATO no longer is the main vehicle for setting trans-Atlantic strategy. He proposed creating an independent commission to study the situation and suggest alternatives. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- one of the participants -- responded by saying NATO was very much alive.

• February 03, 2005

  Germany: Nazi Hunters Look For Aging War Criminals

  Sixty years after the end of World War II, Jewish organizations are making what they are calling a last-ditch effort to track down Nazi war criminals in Germany before they and their victims die of old age. The initiative is sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, named for the Nazi hunter who brought the infamous German war criminal Adolf Eichmann to justice. The campaign follows similar projects in the Baltic states in 2002 and others last year in Austria, Romania, Croatia, and Hungary.

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