News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairperson welcomes participants of renewed official 5+2 talks on Transdniestrian settlement in Vilnius
Publishing date: 30 November 2011
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed the participants of the renewed official 5+2 negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement which started in Vilnius on 30 November 2011...
OSCE Centre supports training for customs officers on international trade facilitation standards
Publishing date: 30 November 2011
An OSCE-facilitated three-day regional training workshop for customs officers on implementing the World Customs Organization’s Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) programme concluded in Astana on 30 November. The AEO programme aims to facilitate and simplify customs processes and procedures, as well as to encourage public-private partnerships.
OSCE supports border management workshop for border guards and customs officers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 November 2011
A two-and-a-half day workshop for border service and customs officials began in Merke, on Kazakhstan's southern border with Kyrgyzstan, on 28 November 2011. The OSCE Centre in Astana organized the seminar in co-operation with the EU/UNDP Border Management Programme for Central Asia, the International Organization for Migration and the border services and customs agencies of Kazakhstan...
OSCE trains online journalists on both sides of Nistru/Dniestr River
Publishing date: 29 November 2011
VADUL-LUI-VODĂ, Moldova, 29 November 2011 – Journalistic and managerial skills for running sustainable Internet media are the focus of a two-day OSCE training seminar that started today in Vadul-lui-Vodă, a town on the Nistru/Dniestr River outside of Chişinău...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains social service providers on helping victims of human trafficking and domestic violence
Publishing date: 28 November 2011
The first of two training seminars to improve the social services provided to victims of human trafficking and domestic violence began in Kyiv on 28 November 2011 with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU).
OSCE supports Azerbaijan and Georgia talks on shared water resources
Publishing date: 28 November 2011
Government representatives of Azerbaijan and Georgia met to discuss a draft bilateral agreement on the shared water resources of the Kura River Basin in Baku on 28 November 2011 as part of a joint OSCE-UNECE project under the Environment and Security (ENVSEC) Initiative...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo helps law enforcement agencies combat internal corruption
Publishing date: 25 November 2011
A graduation ceremony for 21 high-level officials from the police, customs, Police Inspectorate of Kosovo, Special Prosecutor’s office and judiciary who participated in a five-day OSCE-organized training course on combating corruption within law enforcement agencies was held on 25 November 2011 in Vushtrri/Vučitrn...