News and press releases

DUSHANBE, 22 May 2015 – A week-long Regional Seminar on the Convention on International Transport of Goods Under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention, 1975) organized by the OSCE Border Management Staff College and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) concluded today in Dushanbe.

An OSCE-supported discussion on energy efficiency as the basis for green technologies and a low-carbon economy took place as a side event to the part of the VIII Astana Economic Forum in Astana, Kazakhstan on 22 May 2015...

A two-day seminar focusing on the use of a technologically advanced passport verification system, the International Civil Aviation Organization’ Public Key Directory (ICAO PKD), concluded in Ashgabat on 20 May 2015...

Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin, donated mobile toxic pollution testing equipment and supplies to the American University of Armenia (AUA) Center for Responsible Mining. The donated equipment and supplies are indispensable for collecting data that will inform affected citizens about health risks and allow for advice on how to manage them...

Police officers from Common Contact Centres will meet at border crossing point with Bulgaria, Deve Bair, on 21 May 2015 to share experiences and enhance capacity on fighting organized crime...

As part of its effort to improve social protection, the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina organized on 20 May 2015 in Sarajevo a meeting to establish the Union of Associations of Social Workers in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH)...

The last in a series of four OSCE-supported training seminars on the practical aspects of implementation of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) for Preventing Torture and Ill-treatment in Kazakhstan took place on 20 May 2015 in Astana, Kazakhstan...