News and press releases

On 30 July, the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan supported an anti-corruption webinar for Kazakhstan’s judiciary that included representatives from the supreme and district courts.

An OSCE-organized three-day expert meeting to develop a scenario to use in simulation exercises on countering drug-related money laundering concluded on 30 July 2021 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It took place at the Central Asian Regional Information and Co-ordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (CARICC).

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Teresa Ribeiro, met on 29 July with Armela Krasniqi, the newly elected Chairperson of the Albanian Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA).

The Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the six OSCE field operations in South-Eastern Europe and the Shortest Path Training Company, launched a set of online training courses focused on utilizing IBM’s i2 software packages Analyst’s Notebook and iBase in criminal intelligence analysis.

On 28 July 2021, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) co-organized the official ceremony dedicated to the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by the Republic of Uzbekistan attended by 150 participants. This high-level event was organized in partnership with the National Human Rights Centre of Uzbekistan and the United Nations Country Team.

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized two peer-to-peer workshops on communication and presentation skills for 17 parliamentary staff on 10 and 11 July and 26 and 27 July 2021 in Podgorica.

Management approaches and know-how tools aimed at protecting oil and gas infrastructure from natural or human-made hazards was the topic of an OSCE-organized online seminar that took place on 27 and 28 July 2021.