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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje helps prevent gun violence
Publishing date: 21 October 2010
SKOPJE, 21 October 2010- Authors of the three best drawings that became winners of an OSCE-supported national competition will receive prizes at a ceremony in Skopje today...
OSCE trains Afghan border police on detecting forged documents
Publishing date: 27 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 27 September 2010- A two-week training course for 20 Afghan border police officials to increase operational awareness to detect forged documents and use Interpol databases started today at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe...
OSCE Centre in Ashgabat promotes security of weapon and ammunition stockpiles
Publishing date: 24 September 2010
ASHGABAT, 24 September 2010- More than 30 officers from Turkmenistan's Ministry of Defence took part in an OSCE-organized training course on stockpile management and security of small arms and light weapons and conventional ammunition...
Combating illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons focus of OSCE organized seminar
Publishing date: 16 September 2010
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 16 September 2010- A seminar co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana on combating the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons (SALW) began in Almaty today...
OSCE Centre in Astana conducts training seminar on confidence- and security- building measures
Publishing date: 21 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution
ALMATY, 21 July 2010- A three-day regional training seminar for military officers on the practical implementation of the Vienna Document 1999 on confidence- and security-building measures began in Almaty today...
Toxic rocket fuel component removed from site in western Ukraine as part of OSCE project
Publishing date: 24 June 2010
TSENZHIV, Ukraine, 24 June 2010- The last cargo train removing a highly toxic rocket fuel component from a site near the village of Tsenzhiv in western Ukraine departed today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator hands over equipment to help Ukraine eliminate remnants of war
Publishing date: 10 June 2010
Content type: Press release
What we do: Arms control
KYIV, 10 June 2010- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine handed over explosive ordnance detection equipment to the country's Emergency Situations Minister in an official ceremony in Kyiv today...