News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE helps Kyrgyzstan implement UN resolution on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
Publishing date: 16 September 2016
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 16 September 2016 – A two-day roundtable to discuss the National Action Plan (NAP) on the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1540 on effective measures against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction concluded today in the village of Bulan Sogottu, Issyk-Kul region...
OSCE opens public information centres in Kyrgyzstan to raise awareness on uranium legacy remediation works
Publishing date: 14 September 2016
BISHKEK, 14 September 2016 – The Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and they Aarhus Centre in Osh today opened the first Public Environmental Information Centres (PEIC) in the towns of Mailuu-Suu and Shekaftar of Jalal-Abad region in southern Kyrgyzstan as well as in Min-Kush, Naryn region, in the northern part of the country...
Dialogue, trust and security in Central Asia in focus at OSCE-supported Central Asian Youth Network
Publishing date: 10 September 2016
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 10 September 2016 – The second two-day seminar of the OSCE-supported Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) began today in Kara-Oi village, Issyk-Kul region, for around 40 university students, new members of the CAYN and alumni from Afghanistan, Central Asia and Mongolia...
OSCE trains operators of the Unified State Emergency Dispatching Agency to respond to emergency situations in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 5 September 2016
BISHKEK, 5 September 2016 – With the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the Crisis Management Centre of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan conducted a series of 14 training courses for operators of the Unified State Emergency Dispatching Agency (USEDA). The training was held from 22 August to 4 September 2016 in the Osh, Jalal-Abad, Batken, Issyk-Kul, Talas, Chui regions...
OSCE supports mentoring workshop for mobile doctors in Kyrgyzstan on best practices in health care and human rights protection
Publishing date: 24 August 2016
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 24 August 2016 – A two-day workshop organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek for 16 young and recently-recruited mobile doctors from Batken, Osh, Jalalabad and Talas provinces on health care and human rights protection in detention facilities started today in Sary-Oi, Issyk-Kul region...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports Women’s Leadership School in Batken
Publishing date: 24 August 2016
Some 30 female candidates who will be standing for election to the local councils in the Batken and Osh provinces in southern Kyrgyzstan in November 2016 as well as civil society and media representatives are participating in the OSCE-supported Women’s Leadership School, which started on 23 August in Batken. The training course is organized in co-operation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the NGO Women’s Support Centre...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports a pilot project on improving municipal services delivery in Balykchy
Publishing date: 23 August 2016
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 23 August 2016 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the Mayor’s Office of Balykchy and the International Republican Institute signed today a memorandum of understanding to support a pilot project on improving municipal services delivery in the town of Balykchy, northern Kyrgyzstan, through a so-called “single window model”...