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OSCE trains Tajik and Afghan border officers to detect and interdict illegal cross-border movements
Publishing date: 13 September 2013
Thirteen Tajik border troops and twelve Afghan border police officers serving on the Tajik-Afghan border, graduated on 13 September 2013 from a regular Patrolling and Leadership course conducted by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
OSCE promotes best practices in maritime security in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 13 September 2013
TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan, 13 September 2013 –An OSCE-supported training course on maritime border management concluded in the Caspian coast town of Turkmenbashi today...
OSCE Centre supports conference on transport security and trade facilitation in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 12 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Border management
ASTANA, 12 September 2013 – Some 250 prosecutors and law enforcement officers from Kazakhstan gathered at an international conference that started today in Astana, with the OSCE Centre support, to discuss how to enhance transport security, improve transit and accelerate the movement of goods, in particular within the Eurasian economic space...
OSCE Centre and Kyrgyz State Custom Service agree to establish training centre for Kyrgyz and Afghani custom officers
Publishing date: 9 September 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
The OSCE Centre and the State Customs Service (SCS) of the Kyrgyz Republic signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Bishkek, on 9 September 2013, on establishing a training centre for Kyrgyzstan’s and Afghanistan’s customs officers...
Vienna International Airport customs experts train Afghan and Tajik officers at OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe
Publishing date: 4 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 4 September 2013 – A graduation ceremony of a training course on investigation and risk management techniques in customs procedures took place at the OSCE Border Management Staff College today...
‘Snow Leopards’ in Kyrgyzstan receive support from OSCE
Publishing date: 4 September 2013
On 4 September 2013 the OSCE Centre in Bishkek provided Kyrgyzstan’s Defence Ministry with an obstacle course for training anti-terrorism unit officers and donated equipment for mountain patrolling in Osh, Southern Kyrgyzstan...
Non-proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear weapons discussed at OSCE meeting in Tashkent
Publishing date: 19 August 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
An OSCE-facilitated expert meeting on the technical aspects of the implementation in Uzbekistan of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, with a special focus on preventing the involvement of non-state actors, was held in Tashkent on 19 August 2013...