News and press releases

The OSCE Centre in Bishkek held training sessions on vehicle and container searches and border operations for Kyrgyz and Afghan customs officers at the customs point Ak-Jol on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border. Twenty participants from Afghanistan, including three trainers, together with customs instructors from the Training Centre of the State Customs Service of Kyrgyzstan as well as customs officers working at Ak-Jol border point, attended the course...

BISHKEK, 27 April 2011 – A series of two-day training courses on community policing for some 1,000 police officers across Kyrgyzstan began today with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek in co-operation with the Interior Ministry of Kyrgyzstan...

ASTANA, 27 April 2011 – An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on enhancing international oil spill preparedness and response through the promotion, ratification and implementation of key UN conventions was held in Astana today...

The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek offered their deepest condolences to the Netherlands’ Government and the relatives of Max van der Stoel, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country and the first OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, who died on 23 April at the age of 86...

YEREVAN, 26 April 2011 –– A two-day training course on public relations and freedom of information for Armenian Defence Ministry information service officers started in Yerevan today...

A three-day workshop with Uzbekistan’s state agencies and civil society to better protect and assist the victims and survivors of human trafficking opened in Tashkent on 26 April 2011...

BISHKEK, 26 April 2011 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek in cooperation with non-governmental organization the International Business Council held an open meeting today to discuss best practices in preventing corruption...