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OSCE Centre organizes training on advanced drug recognition and testing in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 4 November 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Border management, Policing
ASHGABAD, 4 November 2005- Experts from the German Customs Service, specializing in drug recognition and testing, conducted the first of two one-week practical training courses in Ashgabad, organized by the OSCE Centre in co-operation with the United...
NATO Secretary General calls for closer links with OSCE
Publishing date: 3 November 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
What we do: Arms control, Border management, Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 3 November 2005- Addressing representatives of the 55 participating States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe today, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called for the two organizations to translate their...
NATO Secretary General to address OSCE Permanent Council on Thursday
Publishing date: 2 November 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
VIENNA, 2 November 2005- NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will address Representatives of the 55 participating States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe on Thursday 3 November...
OSCE Mission to hold conference in Montenegro on public procurement best practices and standards
Publishing date: 22 September 2005
BELGRADE, 22 September 2005- The OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro, through its Office in Podgorica, will on 23 and 24 September hold a regional conference on public procurement best practices and standards in Budva, Montenegro.
OSCE Centre to hold roundtable on cross-border co-operation in Ashgabad
Publishing date: 20 September 2005
ASHGABAD, 20 September 2005- Finding a balance between legitimate border security requirements and the principles of free-flow of goods and people is the aim of a roundtable, organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad in co-operation with the Ministry...
OSCE Chairman encouraged by signs of progress on Nagorno-Karabakh issue
Publishing date: 5 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution
BAKU, 5 September 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, said today in Baku that he was encouraged by progress on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue reached in the course of contacts between Azerbaijan and Armenia....
OSCE Mission to Skopje praises completion of border handover
Publishing date: 30 August 2005
Skopje, 30 August 2005- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje today praised the Ministries of Defense and Interior on the successful transfer of border control from the military to the border police.