News and press releases

An opening ceremony of a training-of-trainers course for six customs officers from Afghanistan took place on 10 February 2014 at the premises of the Kyrgyz Customs Training centre in Leninskoe village near Bishkek...

DUSHANBE, 5 February 2014 – A new training season at the OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) in Dushanbe kicked off today with an opening ceremony for the 10th Border Management Staff Course...

DUSHANBE, 31 January 2014 – Tajik border guard officers from the Main Directorate of Tajik Border Troops completed a two-week OSCE patrol winter course in Gissar today. The course was organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...

Ambassador Sergey Kapinos, Head of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, and René Holenstein, Ambassador of Switzerland to the Kyrgyz Republic representing the Swiss Chairmanship-in-Office, presented priorities of their co-operation on 29 January 2014 in Bishkek...

An OSCE-supported basic training course for 30 newly recruited Kyrgyz customs offices concluded on 27 December 2013 in Leninskoe village near Bishkek...

BISHKEK, 19 December 2013 – A renovated training room, computer equipment and study materials to be used in delivering courses on identifying forged travel documents were presented by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek to the State Border Service of Kyrgyzstan today. The ceremony marked the completion of a capacity-building course on travel document security.

Twenty Afghan and Tajik border officers completed a two-week OSCE patrol medical course on 13 December 2013 under the Patrol Programming and Leadership Project in Dushanbe...