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Kyrgyzstan’s Special Forces participate in OSCE-supported military incursion and hostage-taking exercise

Publishing date: 19 July 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
An OSCE-supported anti-terrorism military exercise to simulate how Kyrgyzstan’s government would respond to a possible cross-border incursion and hostage situation took place in the country’s Chon-Alay district, Osh province on 19 July 2013...

Nearly 1,300 bombs and 19 missiles destroyed as part of large-scale OSCE Soviet-era ammunition demolition project in Georgia

Publishing date: 18 July 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control
The explosion of a cluster bomb on 12 July 2013 at a demolition range in Georgia marked the end of a two-year project by the OSCE and the United Nations Development Programme to help the country destroy 1,289 pieces of aircraft ammunition and 19 missiles...

Secretary-General of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation addresses OSCE

Publishing date: 18 July 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: Permanent Council
The Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Dmitry Mezentsev, addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on 18 July 2013...

Civil society oversight of municipalities necessary to improve public service, OSCE conference participants conclude

Publishing date: 17 July 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Good governance
More than 25 civil society representatives from south-eastern Europe met on 15 and 16 July 2013 at an OSCE conference in Prishtinë/ Priština to exchange best practices on municipal oversight and participation in local decision-making...

Measures to promote transparency, public participation in lawmaking in focus at ODIHR-supported workshop in Tbilisi

Publishing date: 16 July 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization
Measures to increase transparency and public participation in the lawmaking process were the focus of a workshop organised by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Parliament of Georgia in Tbilisi on 16 July 2013...

OSCE promotes parliamentarism among young people in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 16 July 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Education, Rule of law
On 15 July 2013 the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan hosted the concluding session of the Youth Model Parliament, an OSCE–supported project...

Young people from both banks of Dniester/Nistru river discuss environmental protection and building trust, with OSCE support

Publishing date: 16 July 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Education, Youth
An OSCE-supported summer school held from 4 to 14 July 2013 brought together 80 young people from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River in a beach town of Molovata Noua...