News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre helps fight money laundering and terrorism financing in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 28 April 2005
BISHKEK, 28 April 2005- Establishing a financial intelligence unit and developing a national strategy to fight money laundering and terrorism financing are the focus of a meeting in Bishkek on 28 and 29 April...
OSCE/ODIHR presents recommendations on amendments to legislation concerning national security
Publishing date: 22 April 2005
ASTANA, 22 April 2005- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today presented comments on a draft law on national security issues in Kazakhstan. If adopted in its current form...
OSCE Chairman, visiting NATO Headquarters, welcomes proposal for seminar on military doctrine
Publishing date: 26 January 2005
BRUSSELS, 26 January 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel on Wednesday welcomed the idea of holding an OSCE seminar on military doctrine. "Due to its long-standing work in the field of disarmament, arms control and confidence-building...
Regional travel documents security workshop held in Tashkent
Publishing date: 16 December 2004
TASHKENT, 16 December 2004- Experts from the Border Guard, Interior and Foreign Ministries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan took part in a workshop on travel document security in the Uzbek capital on 15 and 16 Dec...
OSCE security forum urges destruction of thousands of tonnes of dangerous ammunition and weapons
Publishing date: 29 September 2004
VIENNA, 29 September 2004- The OSCE's Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) held a special meeting today on the risks posed by poorly-guarded stockpiles of deteriorating surplus conventional weapons and munitions, left over from the Cold War era...
OSCE Chairman welcomes improved co-ordination in fight against global terrorism
Publishing date: 24 September 2004
NEW YORK, 24 September 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy welcomed the increasingly successful efforts of the international community, led by the United Nations, to co-ordinate its response to global terrorism. Addressing the 59th...
OSCE Permanent Council honours victims of terrorism in Russia with minute's silence
Publishing date: 9 September 2004
VIENNA, 9 September 2004- The OSCE Permanent Council honoured the victims of a recent series of brutal terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation with a minute's silence on Thursday. After a number of heads of delegation expressed their sympathy and...