News and press releases

To combat the “digital information disorder”, which refers to misinformation, disinformation, and malign information in the digital realm, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, together with the National Counter-Terrorism Council of Mongolia (NCTC), organized a regional expert-level conference in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 23 and 24 April: “Addressing the Prevailing Digital Information Disorder: Countering the Use of the Internet by Terrorists and Violent Extremists”.

It will not be possible to observe the upcoming elections in Lithuania as the invitation extended to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) was made conditional on the exclusion of nationals from certain OSCE states, in breach of the commitments made by all

From April 15 to April 19, 2024, 20 border guard officials undertook a training course titled ‘Storage of Ammunition in an Ammunition Bunker Site’ in Osh, Kyrgyz Republic. This course aimed to enhance the storage practices of ammunition in bunker sites according to the International Ammunition Technical Guidance (IATG).

Participants of a roundtable meeting convened by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) on 18 April 2024 have begun devising a new master plan for comprehensive police dog (K9) services at the General Police Inspectorate of Moldova (GPI).

On 16-18 April, the OSCE Secretariat's Transnational Threats Department, with the support of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and in partnership with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), conducted a training course in Pejë/Peć aimed at enhancing the capacities of local entities in countering the financing of terrorism.

The Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) celebrated the successful conclusion of the Central Asian Women Entrepreneurship Programme with a closing event and award ceremony held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 18 April. The event highlighted the achievement of 20

The OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) organized a workshop on national cyber incident classification- a metric system for the classification of cyber incidents.