News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre supports free legal consultation for residents in border areas in southern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 14 July 2011
A series of legal consultations were held between 6 and 14 July 2011 in the border districts of the Osh and Jalal-Abad Provinces with support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek...
OSCE Border Management Staff College partners with Interpol in fight against terrorism
Publishing date: 29 June 2011
The OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) hosted the sixth meeting of the Operational Working Group of the Interpol-led project KALKAN in Dushanbe from 28 to 29 June 2011...
OSCE seminar highlights good practices in border demarcation
Publishing date: 31 May 2011
VILNIUS, 31 May 2011 – Border officials, diplomats, scientists, cartographers, engineers and other experts today began discussing good practices in delimitation and demarcation of borders at an OSCE Chairmanship seminar in Vilnius...
OSCE-Mongolia Conference focuses on enhanced co-operation with Asian Partners in addressing common security challenges
Publishing date: 23 May 2011
ULAANBAATAR, 23 May 2011 – Strengthening synergies between the 56 participating States of the OSCE and its Asian Partners for Co-operation in addressing transnational threats, such as illicit drug trafficking; advancing international economic co-operation, in particular on transport and energy security; as well as promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms in the whole OSCE area, are key topics of the OSCE-Mongolia Conference that started in Ulaanbaatar today...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek holds joint training for Afghan and Kyrgyz customs officers
Publishing date: 27 April 2011
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek held training sessions on vehicle and container searches and border operations for Kyrgyz and Afghan customs officers at the customs point Ak-Jol on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border. Twenty participants from Afghanistan, including three trainers, together with customs instructors from the Training Centre of the State Customs Service of Kyrgyzstan as well as customs officers working at Ak-Jol border point, attended the course...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan improves teaching skills of border management training staff
Publishing date: 15 April 2011
The second of two five-day training courses in teaching skills and training delivery for lecturers and instructors of border management training institutions began in Dushanbe on 15 April 2011 at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan.
Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister addresses OSCE, reconfirms commitments, calls for political dialogue to solve economic and environmental problems
Publishing date: 31 March 2011
VIENNA, 31 March 2011 – Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council today reconfirmed the country’s commitments to its OSCE obligations in all dimensions of security, stressed the need for active international involvement in economic rehabilitation of Afghanistan, and the importance of promoting political dialogue in Central Asia to overcome differences on water and energy...