News and press releases

An OSCE-organized online training on border crossing facilitation for transit goods carried by rail and road, opened in Ashgabat on 27 May 2020. The training is organized within the framework of the Centre’s extra-budgetary project on “Strengthening State Border Service Capacities in Turkmenistan”, which places a particular focus on promoting cross-border trade and transit in the Central Asian region.

The Action against Terrorism Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department launched an E-learning Course on Preventing and Countering the Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes on 25 May 2020...

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as a part of its wider initiative to support Bosnia and Herzegovina in its pandemic response provided, on 21 May 2020 in Sarajevo, protective equipment and sanitizer for the BiH Border Police...

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro congratulates the citizens of Montenegro on 21 May 2006, a day that commemorates Montenegro regaining its independence through a peaceful and democratic referendum...

SKOPJE, 20 May 2020 – Today, the OSCE Mission to Skopje published its third and final report on the activities and cases under the former Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO). The publication includes recommendations to judicial actors, the legislative and the executive branches, with the aim to tackle the issues identified in the report in order to improve the efficiency and fairness of judicial proceedings...

From 19 to 20 May 2020, the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organized an online training on the management of border crossing points (BCP) in the context of the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan delivered humanitarian and anti-Covid aid following the collapse of the Sardoba dam in the Sirdaryo region in Uzbekistan on 13 May 2020. More than 70,000 citizens were evacuated from their homes due to the dam burst at the beginning of the month and resulting in flood. Given that the physical distance measures to stop the spread of Covid-19 became almost impossible, it was important to provide materials to combat that transnational threat along with providing the humanitarian aid.