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OSCE Centre supports public broadcasting development in Kyrgyzstan with study tours to Lithuania and Georgia
Publishing date: 10 May 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Media freedom and development
An eight-member delegation from Kyrgyzstan are in Vilnius as part of an initiative supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Soros Foundation in Kyrgyzstan to develop Kyrgyzstan’s public broadcasting service (PBS)...
OSCE Centre trains representatives of Water User Associations in southern Kyrgyzstan on legislation
Publishing date: 4 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 4 May 2011- A one-day training seminar for Water User Associations (WUAs) staff started today in Osh with support from the OSCE Centre in Bishkek’s Osh field office...
OSCE Community Security Initiative experts discuss confidence-building in southern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 28 April 2011
On 27-28 April, two senior managers of the OSCE’s Community Security Initiative (CSI) working in southern Kyrgyzstan participated in a round table discussion in the city of Uzgen on the role of young people in promoting stability in the Republic...
OSCE trains local self-government officials in southern Kyrgyzstan on good governance and conflict management
Publishing date: 28 April 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Good governance
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 28 April 2011- A two-day OSCE-supported training seminar for the local self-government representatives from southern Kyrgyzstan started today in Osh...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek holds joint training for Afghan and Kyrgyz customs officers
Publishing date: 27 April 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism, Policing, Rule of law
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...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports training for 1,000 police officers on community policing
Publishing date: 27 April 2011
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...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports debate on preventing corruption
Publishing date: 26 April 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Good governance, Rule of law