News and press releases

A 10-day train-the-trainer course on the detection of forged documents and identification of imposters concluded in Tashkent on 9 June 2017. The course, organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan with support from the Transnational Threats Department’s Travel Document Security Programme, was attended by 19 officers of relevant departments of the State Border Protection and National Security Services and 12 officers of the Internal Affairs Ministry of Uzbekistan...

An inclusive and comprehensive revision of Serbia’s legal framework for elections is among the measures recommended by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in its final report on the country’s 2 April 2017 presidential election. To enhance the conduct of elections,

MINSK, 8 June 2017 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its working groups in Minsk on 7 June 2017:..

International and national efforts to implement UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 and pursuant resolutions that aim to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and stop them from falling into the hands of non-state actors were discussed in the Forum for Security-Co-operation on 7 June 2017...

The Mission to Montenegro organized a discussion in Podgorica on 7 June 2017 focusing on the gender mainstreaming commitments of Montenegro’s municipalities stemming from the Memoranda of Understanding on gender equality that were signed between the Mission, the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and all 23 municipalities between 2007 and 2015...

Strengthening the capacity of government experts from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to resolve and investigate kidnapping situations was the focus of a four-day training course organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with the support of the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and in co-operation with the Spanish National Police from 5 to 8 June 2017 at the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre (CARICC) in Almaty, Kazakhstan...

The OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organized a series of training courses for Turkmenistan’s customs and law enforcement officials on interdicting drugs and chemical precursors from 29 May to 7 June 2017...