News and press releases

TASHKENT, 9 June 2004- The OSCE Centre in Tashkent will begin training courses for domestic election observers in Andijan tomorrow. The programme is intended to prepare observers for the elections on 26 December, after which Uzbekistan will...

TASHKENT, 21 May 2004- A ten-day training course for a group of Uzbek customs officers with Austrian Customs Officials concluded today. It was conducted at several border crossing-points with Slovenia and Italy and at a border-crossing point between...

TASHKENT, 13 May 2004- The second phase of an OSCE project aimed at increasing the participation of women in Uzbekistan's civil society is being launched today with a five-day workshop in the capital. The training scheme on capacity building for women...

TASHKENT, 30 April 2004- More than 50 senior students and 15 of their supervisors from Central Asia will gather on 5 May in Uzbekistan to attend a research seminar marking the successful start of the newly-established Central Asian Youth Network...

TASHKENT, 30 April 2004- World Press Freedom Day will be marked in Tashkent on 3 May by a national media conference which will discuss the situation of the media in Uzbekistan. Organized by the OSCE Centre in Tashkent, the UN Office, the Konrad...

TASHKENT, 15 April 2004- Different ways of preventing human trafficking will be the focus of a work-shop, organized by the OSCE Centre in Tashkent, which opened in the Uzbek capital today...

TASHKENT, 6 April 2004- During the first stop on his five-day visit to the Central Asian States, OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, introduced the priorities of the OSCE agenda in separate meetings with the Foreign...