News and press releases

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina launched, on 19 April 2021, an e-learning course on Strengthening Teacher Competencies for Inclusive and Quality Education for teachers, teacher faculty students, as future teachers, and other interested education professionals. The course is accessible free of charge at https://nastavnickekompetencije.ba/.

Twenty future facilitators from four countries in Central Asia, including 13 women and 7 men, were selected to participate in a regional train-the-trainers seminar. The Action against Terrorism Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department organized the seminar in co-operation with OSCE field operations in Central Asia

In a meeting on 16 April between the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Teresa Ribeiro, and Lasha Darsalia, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, the situation of media freedom in Georgia and the importance of maintaining the progress achieved in this area by the country in recent years was discussed.

A ten-day medical training course on providing first aid and evacuation to injured persons during explosive ordinance disposal concluded on 9 April 2021 at the Regional Explosives Hazards Training Centre under Tajikistan’s Deference Ministry located in the suburbs of Dushanbe. The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe organized the course in co-operation with Tajikistan’s Defence Ministry.

Vincenzo Del Monaco, Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania and Chair of Albania’s Constitutional Court Vitore Tusha, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 14 April 2021, to strengthen co-operation for advancing the capacities of the Court to perform its work in line with international standards.

Over 80 representatives from Ukraine, the donor community and international partner organizations met on 14 April 2021 to discuss co-operation and programmatic efforts in developing and implementing strategic approaches and practical measures in combating illicit trafficking of weapons, ammunition and explosives (WAE).

Marijana Čučuk, Programme Assistant at the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and Jakša Backović, Chief of the Unit for Combating Cyber Crime at the country’s Police Directorate addressed the OSCE Security Committee meeting on “Preventing and Countering Terrorist Use of Internet” on 12 April 2021.