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OSCE–supported Kyrgyz National Forum on Public Safety enhances police cooperation with all stakeholders

Publishing date: 22 April 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Policing
BISHKEK, 22 April 2015 – The Kyrgyz Ministry of Interior in support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek opens National Forum on Public Safety today...

OSCE-supported conference in Uzbekistan underscores need for international and regional co-operation in countering terrorism

Publishing date: 22 April 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Countering terrorism
TASHKENT, 22 April 2015 – An international conference on fighting terrorism as a transnational threat to security, supported by the OSCE, began today in Tashkent...

OSCE and partners-supported first Central Asia Water Museum opens in Bishkek

Publishing date: 22 April 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities
BISHKEK, 22 April 2015- The first Water Museum in Central Asia, supported by the OSCE Center in Bishkek and Small Grants Programme of the Global Environmental Facility/UNDP in Kyrgyzstan was opened in the premises of the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University (KNAU) in Bishkek today...

OSCE supports seminar on safety of Kyzylorda water facilities

Publishing date: 22 April 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
A two-day seminar on the safety and stability of the Kyzylorda water facilities was held on 21-22 April 2015 in Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan...

Proposed amendments to legislation in Moldova could endanger free expression and free media, OSCE Representative says

Publishing date: 22 April 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 22 April 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said the proposed amendments to the Audiovisual Code and the Law on Freedom of Expression, recently put before the Moldovan Parliament, could be harmful to free expression and free media...

Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 20 April 2015

Publishing date: 21 April 2015
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by third parties and security considerations.* Fighting intensified around Donetsk airport and Shyrokyne. The SMM observed military movements on both sides of the contact line.

5+2 special consultations; mediators' communique

Publishing date: 21 April 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Main Website
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
On 21 April 2015, per prior agreement, special consultations of the participants of the Permanent Conference on Political Issues in the Framework of the Negotiation Process for the Transdniestrian Settlement in the “5+2” format took place in Vienna...