News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre in Astana hosts meeting on trade barriers and transport security
Publishing date: 11 August 2009
ASTANA, 11 August 2009- Experts and officials discussed gaps and needs in trade and transport policy and perspectives for transit transport development in the region during an OSCE-supported meeting that ended in Astana today...
OSCE Centre co organizes training seminar for Kazakhstan's Border Service
Publishing date: 20 July 2009
MERKE, 20 July 2009- A three-day training seminar for Kazakhstani Border Service officials, co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana, began today in Merke, a city on Kazakhstan's southern border with Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE supports Central Asia workshop on seizing and recovering organized crime proceeds
Publishing date: 14 July 2009
ALMATY, 14 July 2009- A workshop to discuss how Central Asian law enforcement agencies can co-operate more effectively to seize and recover the illegal proceeds of organized crime, corruption and money laundering started in Almaty today...
OSCE Centre organizes workshop to encourage public participation in environmental decision-making
Publishing date: 2 July 2009
URALSK, 2 July 2009-A workshop organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana that concluded today in Uralsk in western Kazakhstan aimed to develop co-operation and foster trust in the field of environmental decision-making among regional authorities...
OSCE organizes meeting to promote Central Asian law enforcement co-operation in combating organized crime
Publishing date: 1 July 2009
ASTANA, 1 July 2009- An OSCE-supported meeting in Astana brought seven Deputy Interior Ministers and more than 50 high-level officials from the criminal justice sector together today...
OSCE Centre co-organizes roundtable meeting on prevention of torture in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 27 June 2009
ALMATY, 27 June 2009- Participants in an OSCE-supported meeting held today in Almaty discussed effective mechanisms to prevent torture in Kazakhstan and measures to strengthen the role of the civil society in monitoring places of detention...
OSCE Centre supports anti-corruption capacity-building training
Publishing date: 26 June 2009
ASTANA, 26 June 2009- Some 40 experts from the regional offices of the Kazakhstani financial police and the General Prosecutor's Office completed an OSCE Centre-organized course on best practices to prevent, investigate and prosecute...