News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Combating oil pollution of Issyk-Kul Lake in focus at OSCE-supported discussion
Publishing date: 29 November 2013
BALYKCHY, Kyrgyzstan, 29 November 2013 – An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on oil pollution in Kyrgyzstan’s largest lake Issyk-Kul took place today in the lakeside town of Balykchy...
Border officials from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan trained on chemical precursors with OSCE support
Publishing date: 29 November 2013
DUSHANBE, 29 November 2013 The identification and seizure of chemical precursors that have the potential to be used by terrorists, insurgents and criminals to create explosives was the focus of a training course for border and customs officials that concluded in Dushanbe today...
OSCE organizes police training on prevention of domestic violence in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 29 November 2013
GANJA, Azerbaijan, 29 November 2013 – The OSCE Office in Baku conducted a regional training course today on the prevention of domestic violence for police officers. The event was organized by the OSCE Office in close co-operation with the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry...
OSCE Mission to Skopje holds discussion on decentralization challenges
Publishing date: 29 November 2013
SKOPJE, 29 November 2013 – How to ensure transparency and inclusive public participation in local self-government through decentralization policies is the topic of an OSCE-supported event that started in Skopje today...
Terrorists’ access to explosives focus of OSCE discussion in Mongolia
Publishing date: 29 November 2013
A roundtable meeting on hindering terrorists’ access to explosives through better control of explosive chemical precursors of legal use by industry and agriculture took place in Ulaanbaatar on 29 November 2013 with OSCE support, and financial assistance from the Australian government...
OSCE removes obsolete pesticides from Transdniestria
Publishing date: 28 November 2013
CHISINAU, 28 November 2013 – Forty tons of obsolete Soviet-era pesticides left Transdniestria today to be safely disposed of in Germany, with the financial and technical support of the OSCE Mission to Moldova. This is the final phase of a project under which some 100 tons of hazardous material from the left bank of the Dniester/Nistru River will be removed...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, in Kyrgyzstan, discusses language and education policies
Publishing date: 28 November 2013
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Astrid Thors made her first visit to Kyrgyzstan from 20 to 22 November 2013 to familiarize herself with the political situation and interethnic relations in the country and discuss language and education issues...