OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports workshop on enhancing the skills of press officers of Kyrgyzstan’s armed forces
BISHKEK, 10 August 2016 – A three-day OSCE-supported workshop for 15 press officers from Kyrgyzstan’s armed forces on communications and on co-operating during times of crisis concluded today in Bishkek.
Conducted by an international media trainer and attended by press officers from the General Staff, State Border Service (SBS), the National Guard and the State Committee for Defence, the workshop saw participants practice how to co-ordinate information during emergencies and communicate with the media.
"It is necessary to improve the mechanism of co-operation and communication between the press offices of the departments of the General Staff of the Armed Forces in order to provide the media and civil society representatives with prompt, objective and complete information," said Gulmira Borubaeva, Head of the Information support department at the SBS and one of the workshop trainers. "There is a need to identify an effective model for inter-agency co-operation in the General Staff system. The training will help the participants develop a model and how to apply it in their daily work and in crisis situations."
SBS press officer Sajila Chokoloeva, said: "During the course we were able to analyse and evaluate the daily activities of the press. The training helped the press officers to work on real-time examples, identify and analyse errors, and find effective solutions."
This was the last workshop conducted as part of the professional development programme designed for press-officers of Kyrgyzstan’s armed forces.. The first two were delivered to 45 commanders of the General Staff in Bishkek and Osh cities in June and July 2016.
The workshop is part of the OSCE Centre’s project on promoting a national dialogue in the field of information security.