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OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Kairat Abdrakhmanov welcomed Hungary’s legislative framework for national minorities and efforts to accommodate the interests of the different ethnic groups living in the country during his visit to Budapest from 26 to 27 August 2021. The High

On 27 August 2021, the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan concluded a five-day training webinar on modern methods to prevent and combat corruption.

Representatives of the Turkmenbashi International Seaport, the Agency for Sea and River Transport, ‘Turmendenizderyayollary’, and other relevant ministries and agencies discussed international standards in port management and maritime logistics at an OSCE-organized online seminar held in Ashgabat from 30 to 31 August 2021.

A four-day training course aimed at strengthening the capacity of Kyrgyzstan to counter terrorist financing concluded in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan on 28 August 2021. It was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek.

With support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, a delegation of Uzbek government officials participated in a study visit to the Headquarters of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in Rome from 24 to 27 August 2021.

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro has supported the NGO Safe Women’s House to increase its shelter capacities for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence, by providing a prefabricated house in June 2021. On 24 August, Siv-Katrine Leirtroe, Acting Head of the Mission, visited the shelter.

From 22 to 28 August 2021, twenty young diplomats from Belarus, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and the Russian Federation are taking part in a five-day International Summer School for Junior Diplomats in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan.