News and press releases

ASTANA, 18 June 2012 – An OSCE-supported meeting on improving interaction between customs and businesses to facilitate international trade was held in Astana today...

KARAGANDY, Kazakhstan, 8 June 2012 – A review of the National Human Rights Commissioner’s (Ombudsman’s) work in 2011 was presented at an OSCE-supported meeting held in Karagandy today...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 7 June 2011 – Reform efforts in the field of criminal justice are the focus of an OSCE-supported two-day round-table meeting that began in Almaty today...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 6 June 2012 – Enhancing co-operation in Central Asia to fight organized crime and terrorism is the topic of a two-day workshop organized by the OSCE, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Center (CARICC) that began today in Almaty...

On the occasion of the 2012 World Environment Day on 5 June, staff of the OSCE Centre in Astana planted shrubs in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The theme of the 2012 World Environmental Day is “Green economy: does it include you?” The event was organized by the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia to raise awareness of environmental risks and ecological scarcities...

ASTANA, 30 May 2012- A three-day regional training seminar for military officers on the practical implementation of the Vienna Document 2011 began in Astana today...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 29 May 2012 – Sixty policy and decision makers, legal and technical experts, and academia and non-governmental organizations representatives from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia are taking part in a workshop on groundwater management which started today in Almaty...