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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Lajčák discussed constructive support for OSCE activities in all three dimensions during visit to Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 8 April 2019
NUR-SULTAN, 8 April 2019- OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Slovakia’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák stressed the importance of regional co-operation in all three dimensions of comprehensive security during his visit today to Nur-Sultan...
Introduction to humanitarian mine action systems for experts from Central Asia kicks off in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 4 April 2019
A five-day OSCE regional course, Introduction to Humanitarian Mine Action Systems, started on 1 April 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE supports roundtable discussion on causes of mass fish death in Ural River
Publishing date: 4 April 2019
An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on environmental problems in the Atyrau Region including the recent death of numerous tonnes of fish in the Ural River concluded on 3 April 2019 in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.
Women’s economic empowerment in rural areas focus of OSCE-supported training seminar in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 1 April 2019
Promoting rural entrepreneurship for women was the focus of a two-day training seminar and roundtable discussion co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office that concluded on 29 March 2019 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
OSCE conducts seminar series on combating domestic violence in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 15 March 2019
A series of three one-day training seminars and a public discussion on the legislative mechanisms regulating the police’s work in combating domestic violence concluded on 15 March 2019 in Kazakhstan’s Zhambyl Region...
OSCE Programme Office in Astana supports 25th meeting of Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan joint commission on transboundary Chu and Talas rivers management
Publishing date: 15 March 2019
An OSCE-supported meeting of the Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic on the Use of Water Management Facilities of Intergovernmental Status on the Rivers Chu and Talas (Intergovernmental Commission) took place on 14 March 2019 in Taraz, Kazakhstan...
Kazakh trainers trained in countering terrorist financing by OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Publishing date: 7 March 2019
A two-day train-the-trainer course on countering terrorist financing was organized in Vienna for Kazakh participants on 6 and 7 March 2019 by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Programme against Money Laundering (UNODC/GPML), and supported by the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG)...