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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Best international and national practices discussed at the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation‘s meeting on management of stockpiles of conventional ammunition
Publishing date: 13 July 2017
More international co-operation and a transparent and comprehensive approach are required to build on results achieved so far in managing stockpiles of conventional ammunition in a safe and secure way, said speakers at the meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation held under Russia’s Chairmanship on 12 July. The event focused on practices of managing stockpiles and destroying surpluses in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia and Switzerland...
Head of OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe meets Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister
Publishing date: 7 July 2017
DUSHANBE, 7 July 2017 – Ambassador Tuula Yrjölä, Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, met Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister Aslov Sirodjidin Muhridinovich in Dushanbe today. She gave an update on the transition of the “OSCE Office in Tajikistan” into the “OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe”, which came into effect on 1 July 2017, as mandated by the OSCE Permanent Council Decision 1251...
Effectiveness and sustainability of national security sector reform and governance processes focus of OSCE-supported regional workshop in Chisinau
Publishing date: 7 July 2017
CHISINAU, 7 July 2017 – Some 30 security sector professionals from Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine gathered for a three-day regional workshop on security sector governance and reform which concluded today in Chisinau...
Development of Turkmen national action plan on implementing UN resolution on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is focus of OSCE and UNODA discussion in Ashgabat
Publishing date: 30 June 2017
Some 30 representatives of Turkmenistan’s law-enforcement bodies and other relevant institutions and ministries participated in a roundtable discussion on the national and regional implementation of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 (2004) on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction on 29 and 30 June 2017 in Ashgabat...
Countering proliferation of weapons of mass destruction focus of OSCE workshop in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 June 2017
A two-day workshop on implementing the United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Kazakhstan concluded on 30 June, 2017 in Astana...
Moldovan army officers trained to securely handle conventional ammunition during OSCE-supported six-week course
Publishing date: 22 June 2017
A total of 26 Moldovan army officers and representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and the Security and Intelligence Service successfully graduated from a six-week training course on 21 June 2017 supported by the OSCE Mission to Moldova. The course was held in Chisinau and delivered by Moldovan army officers with assistance from Austrian and German trainers...
International co-operation on implementing UN Security Council resolutions on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction discussed in OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation
Publishing date: 8 June 2017
International and national efforts to implement UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 and pursuant resolutions that aim to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and stop them from falling into the hands of non-state actors were discussed in the Forum for Security-Co-operation on 7 June 2017...