News and press releases

From 27 to 30 April in the Zhambyl region, the Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, in collaboration with Kazakhstan’s hydrometeorology service Kazgidromet, launched its first in a series of four surface water samples collection in the transboundary Chu and Talas river basin. The water samples taken by Kazgidromet specialists from 16 different locations will be delivered to the Kazgidromet’s local laboratory in Taraz for examining the physical and chemical composition...

An OSCE-supported three-day online awareness-raising workshop on effective implementation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in line with the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on EIA, also known as Espoo Convention and its Protocol on SEA, concluded on 2 April 2021...

An OSCE-supported online training webinar on the protection of whistleblowers concluded in Nur-Sultan on 26 March 2021. The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan organized the event in partnership with the Anti-corruption Agency of Kazakhstan...

Law enforcement agencies’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and international best practices were the focus of an online OSCE workshop for Ministry of internal affairs officials, law enforcement officers and health authorities in Kazakhstan held on 18 March 2021.

The OSCE-supported “Safer Communities in Kazakhstan” Forum took place on 12 March 2021 in Nur-Sultan. The event focused on unifying the efforts of government bodies and NGOs in developing sustainable and safe communities in Kazakhstan.

An OSCE-supported international online conference “OSCE Astana Summit 2010: Historical Significance and Relevance” was held on 19 February 2021. The event was organized by the Library of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – the Leader of the Nation (Elbasy), together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan.

Strengthening organizational mechanisms and promoting co-operation in addressing labour exploitation in Kazakhstan and other OSCE participating States was the focus of an online international roundtable discussion, which concluded on 29 January 2021.