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OSCE trains border management professionals in applying democratic security sector governance to border security management

Publishing date: 4 September 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
BRATISLAVA, 4 September 2019 –A three-day advanced training course exploring the connection between security sector governance and reform (SSG/R) and border security management, hosted by the Slovak OSCE Chairmanship, concluded today.

OSCE and UNECE join forces on strengthening security of inland freight routes

Publishing date: 4 September 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Partners for Co-operation
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
GENEVA, Switzerland, 4 September 2019 –The wide array of regionally and internationally available security standards, instruments, technologies and methodologies at the disposal of governments to address the critical security risks faced by their inland transport systems was the focus of a joint OSCE-UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Inland Transport Security Discussion Forum on Strengthening Security on Inland Freight Routes that ended today in Geneva...

OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 208/2019 issued on 3 September 2019

Publishing date: 3 September 2019
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary Compared with the previous 24 hours, the SMM recorded fewer ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Mission observed multiple craters and projectiles in flight in Pikuzy. The SMM saw that the former forward positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and of the armed

Albanian trainers trained in countering terrorist financing by OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime

Publishing date: 3 September 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
A two-day train-the-trainer course on countering terrorist financing for participants from Albania was held on 2 and 3 September 2019 at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna...

Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 3 September 2019

Publishing date: 3 September 2019
Content type: Weekly report
Where we are: OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk (discontinued)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons decreased at both BCPs compared to the previous week...

OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Daily Report 207/2019 issued on 2 September 2019

Publishing date: 2 September 2019
Content type: Daily report
Where we are: OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Summary Compared with the previous reporting period, between the evenings of 30 and 31 August, the SMM recorded a similar number of ceasefire violations in both Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Between the evenings of 31 August and 1 September, the Mission recorded more ceasefire violations in both

Strong partnerships key for security in the digital era – main message from opening of 2019 OSCE Asian Conference in Tokyo

Publishing date: 2 September 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Asian Partners for Co-operation, OSCE Chairmanship
Tokyo, 2 September 2019 – Speaker after speaker reconfirmed that strengthening co-operation between OSCE participating States and its Asian Partners for Co-operation is key to achieving comprehensive security in the digital era at today’s opening of the 20th Asian Conference in Japan.