News and press releases

Mailuu-Suu is a small town located in the Jalal-Abad province, Kyrgyzstan, with a population of 22 thousand people. During the Soviet years, the town used to be a regional centre for mining uranium ore – a large industry that came to a halt with the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990’s. Mailuu-Suu’s industrial past left multiple uranium tailings pits that partially have been rehabilitated and recultivated; yet, there still remain tailings pits that pose threat to the local population’s and ecosystem’s health.

The OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Action against Terrorism Unit (TNTD/ATU) marked a decade of efforts to prevent and counter violent extremism on 20 June 2022 in an anniversary Seminar held in Vienna. The seminar, titled In Retrospect: 10 Years of a Comprehensive Approach to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism- Good Practices and Evolving Challenges in the OSCE area, was an opportunity to take stock of good practices, to identify and discuss evolving and existing challenges in the OSCE area, and to draft a set of recommendations that stakeholders can use moving forward.

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo held its fourth Media Fellowship programme, an annual initiative that seeks to develop young journalists and establish a network of fellows from different communities.

Social entrepreneurship, best practices and lessons learnt were discussed during an OSCE-organized online seminar in Ashgabat on 20 and 21 June 2022. The seminar brought together representatives from the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Finance and Economy of

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan continues to support the integration of environmental education into the pre-school curriculum throughout the country. On 16 June 2022, the Project Co-ordinator jointly with the Ministry of Preschool Education and the Innovative Center for Information and Pedagogical Technologies organized a national high-level conference to present the programme on environmental education “Earth is Our Common Home” for preschool educational institutions.

Election experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented the final report on Uzbekistan’s 2021 presidential election during a visit to Tashkent that took place from 14 to 17 June 2022.

The representatives of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe (Office) and Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry (Ministry) inaugurated Ministry’s coordination centre and new office premises on 14 June 2022 in Dushanbe.