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OSCE Mobile Training Team conducts course on identifying foreign terrorist fighters for border and security officers from Ukraine

21 June 2018
Ukrainian Boarder Guards at a OSCE Training on the Identification of Foreign Terrorist Fighters, Lviv, 20 June 2018. (OSCE/Florian Krejsa) Photo details

On 20 June 2018, the OSCE Mobile Training Team concluded a three-day interactive training course on identifying foreign terrorist fighters in Lviv, Ukraine The training, organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department with the support of the Project Co-ordinator’s Office in Ukraine was attended by 14 border and security officers from Ukraine. 

The programme focused on international, regional and national legal frameworks, the effective use of Interpol databases and the identification of potential foreign terrorist fighters at borders, in compliance with international human rights standards.

“Such courses not only provide important knowledge but =also an opportunity to open new channels of communication in the fight against the threat of foreign terrorist fighters,” said Gorancho Stojkovski, the OSCE Border Security and Management Unit Customs Adviser.

The importance of improved knowledge regarding risk analysis models as applied to foreign terrorist fighters as well as the history, background, trends and current cases were emphasized during the course. Ukrainian border and security officers also engaged in a practical training session on travel document security, including the detection of forged documents and impostors as well as in interactive exercises to deepen their understanding of indicators in the behavior of foreign terrorist fighters.

The course was delivered by members of the OSCE Mobile Training Team from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, and Ukraine. Expert speakers from INTERPOL and the OSCE shared their knowledge and expertise in the identification of foreign terrorist fighters at the borders.

The OSCE Mobile Training Team was established by the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in 2016. It is composed of 17 selected border and counter-terrorism experts from OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation.