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OSCE Centre, Tajik Interior Ministry open facility to store and destroy small arms and light weapons
Publishing date: 22 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
DUSHANBE, 22 June 2006- The OSCE Centre in Dushanbe and the Tajik Interior Ministry today opened a storage and destruction facility for small arms and light weapons (SALW) in Dushanbe. Located at...
OSCE Chairman expresses condolences after French expert dies in landmine accident in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 20 April 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
BRUSSELS, 20 April 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, expressed his condolences to the family of a French expert who was killed when a landmine exploded in Tajikistan on 19 April...
Boost for mine detection in Tajikistan- OSCE, UN open dog training centre
Publishing date: 4 April 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
DUSHANBE, 4 April 2006- A new centre for training dogs that will help detect landmines opened today in Rudaki, in the barracks of an Engineering Battalion of the Tajik Defence Ministry, some 15 km from the capital Dushanbe. It will have...
Land cleared of mines handed over under OSCE and Swiss programme in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 14 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
DUSHANBE, 14 September 2004- A plot of land cleared of mines, the first of its kind and part of a long-lasting international project, was today handed over to the local community in the Dusti-Kumsangir district, near the Tajik border with Afghanistan...
OSCE supports first international mine clearance project in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 29 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 29 May 2003- An agreement to start the first internationally supported mine clearance operations in Tajikistan was signed today in the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe, clearing the way for a nation-wide Mine Action Project to start in June...