News and press releases

BISHKEK, 9 July 2014 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the OSCE Secretariat (Transnational Threats Department) and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in co-operation with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) facilitated at the request of the Kyrgyz Government the deployment of an assessment mission focussing on security of travel documents and of their issuance process...

Kyrgyzstan has been removed from the ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and will no longer be subject to the FATF’s monitoring process under its ongoing global process of compliance with requirements on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). This was announced at the third FATF Plenary meeting held from 25 to 27 June 2014 in Paris. The OSCE Centre in Bishkek contributed to this through providing technical assistance to Kyrgyzstan...

DUSHANBE, 3 July 2014 – Today the OSCE Office in Tajikistan jointly with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and in close co-operation with the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) completed a four-day training course on conflict prevention...

From 26 to 28 June 2014, the OSCE Center in Bishkek in co-operation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) conducted a series of events in Batken, Osh and Jalal-Abad in the south of Kyrgyzstan to enhance public confidence in Kyrgyz police...

ULAANBAATAR, 27 June 2014 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek funded a study visit to the Mongolian capital on 24 to 27 June 2014 of fifteen representatives from Kyrgyzstan’s Parliament, the Central Election Commission, the State Registration Service, the President’s Office, the Foreign Ministry and other key state agencies to familiarize participants with the population registration system and use of biometric data in Mongolia...

BISHKEK, 26 June 2014 – On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek together with the National Torture Prevention Centre, Freedom House and the non-governmental organization Golos Svobody held a roundtable meeting on torture and ill-treatment in detention facilities and the army in Kyrgyzstan...

Representatives from the President Office, parliament, the Supreme Court, law enforcement agencies, the government and civil society gathered in Bishkek on 17 June 2014 to discuss rule of law and judicial reforms in Kyrgyzstan...