News and press releases

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...

TASHKENT, 4 September 2013 – A three-day course for police instructors on international human rights standards started today in Tashkent, which is being held with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan...

VIENNA, 3 September 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today expressed concern about the proposed amendments to the Criminal and Administrative codes in Kazakhstan which could limit the freedom of expression...

The first International Economic Forum in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province (GBAO) of Tajikistan brought together international and local business representatives, as well as national policy makers from 30 to 31 August 2013 to discuss and promote economic opportunities of the region...

SKOPJE, 2 September 2013 – The Mission to Skopje has supported the renovation of classrooms and provided basic equipment to the Shishevo branch of the “Sami Frasheri” primary school in the municipality of Saraj, which held a ceremony to open the new school year today...

On 30 August 2013 the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Leonid Kozhara had a telephone conversation with President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Ranko Krivokapic. Leonid Kozhara reiterated a great importance that the Ukrainian OSCE Chairmanship attaches to the activities of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and stressed the readiness to continue close co-operation with this institution...

BISHKEK, 30 August 2013- Thirteen university students from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan graduated today from the Fourth Central Asian School of Contemporary Journalism at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek...