News and press releases

The OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported a roundtable discussion on effective implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Kazakhstan which took place on 28 July, 2017 in Astana...

A seven-day training course aimed at strengthening the capacity of government officials from Kyrgyzstan to counter terrorist financing was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)’s Global Programme against Money Laundering in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan from 22 to 28 July 2017...

Ten border officers from the Afghan Border Police and ten Tajik Border Troops completed a three-week training of trainers course on 26 July 2017. The course was organized under the Patrol Programming and Leadership project of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe...

An OSCE-supported regular meeting of the Shu-Talas Water Basin Council, followed by a training seminar on climate change adaptation measures, took place on 26 July 2017 in Taraz, southern Kazakhstan...

Two parallel 11-day courses on explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) level 3, supported by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, were concluded in Dushanbe on 21 July 2017. The courses for Russian-speaking and Tajik-Dari speaking students, respectively, were attended by 42 trainees from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Tajikistan...

An OSCE-supported four-day training seminar titled “Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Inhuman Treatment in Accordance with the Istanbul Protocol” started on 24 July 2017 in Astana...

VIENNA, 24 July 2017 – The start of the trial against journalists and board members of the daily newspaper Cumhuriyet today highlights the urgent need to protect journalism and improve media freedom in Turkey, Harlem Désir, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media stated...