News and press releases

An OSCE-supported awareness-raising quiz on risks and threats of explosive remnants of war (ERW), for more than160 secondary school students from all over Ukraine, took place on 9 September 2013 in Zaozerne near Yevpatoria in Crimea...

The OSCE Centre and the State Customs Service (SCS) of the Kyrgyz Republic signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Bishkek, on 9 September 2013, on establishing a training centre for Kyrgyzstan’s and Afghanistan’s customs officers...

An OSCE-supported inter-cultural summer camp for 45 secondary school students of different ethnic backgrounds in Skopje and Tetovo municipalities is taking place from 8 to 15 September 2013 in Struga...

Some 25 leading experts, governmental officials and representatives of the diplomatic community in Bishkek took part in the annual seminar on regional security in Central Asia, hosted and organized by the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, from 6 to 7 September 2013...

Countering violent extremism, promoting tolerance, improving regional security, and understanding migration trends and political ideologies are the topics of this year’s OSCE-supported Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) meeting in Almaty held from 3 to 5 September 2013...

On 4 September 2013 the OSCE Centre in Bishkek provided Kyrgyzstan’s Defence Ministry with an obstacle course for training anti-terrorism unit officers and donated equipment for mountain patrolling in Osh, Southern Kyrgyzstan...

Some 50 prison and police officers of Kyrgyzstan’s State Penitentiary Service (GSIN) discussed on 4 September 2013 in Bishkek ways to prevent extremism and radicalization in prisons at an OSCE-supported training seminar...