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Ambassador Natalia Zaruda (r), the Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, presents a copy of a handbook on best practices at border crossings to Igor Ten, the Deputy Chairperson of Kazakhstan's Customs Committee, Astana, 14 May 2012.

OSCE Centre in Astana promotes international standards in cross-border trade within Customs Union

ASTANA, 14 May 2012 – Facilitating cross-border trade and transport operations within the Customs Union comprised of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia is the subject of a regional seminar that started in Astana today.юю

Government and civil society representatives participate in the two-day seminar, Bishkek, 14 May 2012.

Using asset declarations by public officials to fight corruption in Central Asia focus of OSCE seminar

BISHKEK, 14 May 2012 – Requiring public officials to declare their assets as a way of increasing transparency and trust in public administration and preventing conflicts of interest and corruption is the theme of a two-day OSCE expert seminar that started today in Bishkek...

L-r: Alexey Stukalo, Deputy Co-ordinator and Head of Economic Activities, Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities; Eva Molnar, Director, UNECE Transport Division and Didem Dirlik, Head of Department, Ministry of Customs and Trade of the Republic of Turkey, during a side event on border crossing procedures at the 2012 Annual Summit of the International Transport Forum, Leipzig, 3 May 2012.

OSCE event participants discuss ways to improve border crossing procedures at 2012 International Transport Forum

LEIPZIG, Germany, 3 May 2012 – Participants at an OSCE side event at the 2012 Annual Summit of the International Transport Forum discussed ways to ensure more effective border crossing procedures...

Workshop participants learn how to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism, Astana, 3 May 2012.

OSCE trains non-financial entities in preventing money laundering, financing terrorism

ASTANA, 3 May 2012 – An OSCE training course on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) for Kazakhstani non-financial businesses and professions has taken place today in Astana... (

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Fight against corruption, good governance focus of high-level OSCE meeting in Dublin on Monday

DUBLIN, 19 April 2012 – Good governance and fighting corruption is the theme of a two-day OSCE meeting that opens in Dublin on Monday 23 April 2012...

Ambassador Koray Targay (r), the Head of the OSCE Office in Baku, and Irada Javadova, the Chairperson of Education on Human Rights Public Association, open the OSCE-supported Legal Advice Centre in Mingachevir.

OSCE Office in Baku supports legal centre for entrepreneurs

MINGACHEVIR, Azerbaijan, 17 April 2012 – A legal advice centre for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supported by the OSCE Office in Baku opened today in Mingachevir, the fourth biggest city in Azerbaijan... (

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Goran Svilanovic, the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, speaking to students at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, 26 March 2012.

OSCE Academy in Bishkek launches module on economic and environmental field

BISHKEK, 26 March 2012 – Twenty-four students from Central Asia and Afghanistan – enrolled in the OSCE Academy’s newly launched Masters programme in Economic Governance and Development – started today a one-week teaching module devoted to the OSCE’s work in the economic and environmental field...