News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Customs instructors enhance training delivery capacity at OSCE, WCO-supported train-the-trainer course
Publishing date: 4 December 2015
DUSHANBE, 4 December 2015 – Fifteen instructors from the national training customs institutions of Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Tajikistan concluded today a ten-day train-the-trainer course in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, organized jointly by the OSCE Border Management Staff College and the World Customs Organization’s (WCO) Programme Global Shield (PGS)...
Only through dialogue can solutions be found to crisis in and around Ukraine, says OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Dačić
Publishing date: 4 December 2015
BELGRADE, 4 December 2015 – Only through dialogue can enduring and sustainable solutions be found to the crisis in and around Ukraine, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić on Thursday as he joined his Special Representative to the Trilateral Contact Group and the OSCE’s Chief Monitor in addressing a side event on the margins of the 22nd Ministerial Council in Belgrade...
OSCE holds roundtable discussion on women’s political empowerment in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 4 December 2015
Empowering women politicians in Tajikistan was the topic of an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion, held on 3 December 2015 in Dushanbe, for representatives of the country’s political parties...
OSCE helps Ukraine to introduce information management system for mine action
Publishing date: 4 December 2015
MEREFA, Ukraine, 4 December 2015– A first group of 12 Ukrainian emergency personnel officers completed a four-day training course today on operation of an information management system for mine action (IMSMA), organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine at the State Emergency Service training facility in Kharkiv oblast...
OSCE concludes set of seminars for defence lawyers on novelties of criminal legislation
Publishing date: 4 December 2015
On 4 December 2015 in Astana, Kazakhstan, the OSCE Programme Office held the last in a series of five training seminars for defence lawyers, organized in co-operation with the Almaty Bar Association, on the novelties of the country’s criminal justice codes...
OSCE supports seminar on fostering police integrity in Montenegro
Publishing date: 4 December 2015
Recent developments and strategic priorities in fostering police integrity in Montenegro was the topic of the OSCE-supported seminar held on 1 December 2015 in Podgorica, which brought together 50 participants from state institutions, civil society, media and international organizations...
Robust diplomatic process needed to replace mutual recrimination with rebuilding trust in Europe, conclude Panel of Eminent Persons
Publishing date: 3 December 2015
BELGRADE, 3 December 2015- A diplomatic process that explores the common problems of European States carefully, confidentially and systematically is needed to overcome the current divisions and uncertainties over security, concludes the final report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project, presented today on the margins of the 22nd OSCE Ministerial Council in Belgrade...