News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE and partners support orientation seminar for members and staff of Kyrgyz parliament
Publishing date: 25 April 2016
BISHKEK, 25 April 2016 – A three-day OSCE-supported orientation seminar for some forty members of parliament and new parliamentary staff on the role and functions of Kyrgyzstan’s 120-seat legislature, the Jogorku Kenesh, concluded today at the Suparu ethno-complex outside Bishkek...
OSCE supports training courses for Kyrgyz journalists on countering violent extremism
Publishing date: 22 April 2016
BISHKEK, 22 April 2016 – Some sixty journalists completed today a series of OSCE-supported training courses in Osh and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on challenges related to reporting on religious beliefs and violent extremism...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek-supported report assesses protection of human rights within Kyrgyzstan’s armed forces
Publishing date: 19 April 2016
BISHKEK, 19 April 2016 – An OSCE Centre in Bishkek-supported report detailing the protection of human rights within the Kyrgyz Armed Forces and recommendations to the Kyrgyz Government on how to improve the situation was presented in Bishkek today by the Kylym Shamy NGO, the Kyrgyz Ombudsman Office, the National Centre on the Prevention of Torture and the General Staff of the Armed Forces...
Debate on improving inter-ethnic relations in focus of OSCE-supported conference in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 14 April 2016
BATKEN, Kyrgyzstan, 14 April 2016 – An OSCE-supported conference aimed at promoting national unity and inter-ethnic harmony through improving inter-community relations took place today in Batken, southern Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE-implemented project on small arms and light weapons and conventional ammunition in Kyrgyzstan positively assessed
Publishing date: 13 April 2016
KOY-TASH, Kyrgyzstan, 13 April 2016 – A two-day donor assessment of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek’s ongoing programme on small arms and light weapons (SALW) and conventional ammunition (CA) concluded today in Koy-Tash village of Kyrgyzstan...
Model OSCE conference in Bishkek engages youth in building consensus on managing trans-boundary waters
Publishing date: 9 April 2016
BISHKEK, 9 April, 2016 – Thirty-five young people gathered in Bishkek today for the start of a two-day Model OSCE conference, simulating a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, to discuss challenges to cross-border water management in Central Asia...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Steinmeier and Kyrgyz Foreign Minister sign agreement on extending operations of OSCE Academy
Publishing date: 1 April 2016
BISHKEK, 1 April 2016 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Minister Erlan Abdyldaev yesterday signed an agreement on extending the current operating modalities and academic independence of the OSCE Academy in Bishkek...