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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
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Border management
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 Office trains Tajik border troops
Publishing date: 28 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 28 July 2009- The OSCE Office in Tajikistan signed a memorandum of understanding today with the Tajik Border Troops Department to provide a comprehensive training programme to enhance the department's patrol and surveillance capacities...
OSCE Centre co organizes training seminar for Kazakhstan's Border Service
Publishing date: 20 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Border management
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 and IOM co-organize training course for Belarusian Border Service on detecting forged travel documents
Publishing date: 6 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
MINSK, 6 July 2009- Twenty Belarusian border control officers started an intensive two-week training course today to improve their ability to detect forged documents...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports training course to help border police combat car smuggling
Publishing date: 24 June 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Democratization, Border management, Policing, Rule of law
SKOPJE, 24 June 2009- An OSCE-supported training course that started in Skopje today aims to help Border Police and other police units improve their capacity to detect car smuggling...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan sign agreement on enhancing capacity of customs training centre
Publishing date: 15 June 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management
BISHKEK, 15 June 2009- The Kyrgyz State Customs Committee (SCC) signed an agreement with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek today, launching a project to enhance the capacity of its training centre...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, speaking at OSCE, draws attention to security and stability
Publishing date: 4 June 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 4 June 2008- The international community should find healthy compromises to keep military monitoring officers, stabilize the situation and help sides develop a respectful dialogue, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said today.