News and press releases

Thirty-five volunteers from Kaptarkhana village in Batken province in south-west Kyrgyzstan, including staff of the Mayor’s office and the State Water Agency, and representatives of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) got together on 5 October 2013 to work on the facilities for taking the water from the river and channelling it to the newly constructed potable water pipeline...

Kyrgyzstan’s state officials, religious leaders, civil society and media representatives gathered in Bishkek on 20 September 2013 for an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on the legal and practical aspects of safeguarding the freedom of religion or belief in the Kyrgyz Republic...

The OSCE Centre and the State Customs Service (SCS) of the Kyrgyz Republic signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Bishkek, on 9 September 2013, on establishing a training centre for Kyrgyzstan’s and Afghanistan’s customs officers...

Some 25 leading experts, governmental officials and representatives of the diplomatic community in Bishkek took part in the annual seminar on regional security in Central Asia, hosted and organized by the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, from 6 to 7 September 2013...

On 4 September 2013 the OSCE Centre in Bishkek provided Kyrgyzstan’s Defence Ministry with an obstacle course for training anti-terrorism unit officers and donated equipment for mountain patrolling in Osh, Southern Kyrgyzstan...

Some 50 prison and police officers of Kyrgyzstan’s State Penitentiary Service (GSIN) discussed on 4 September 2013 in Bishkek ways to prevent extremism and radicalization in prisons at an OSCE-supported training seminar...

BISHKEK, 30 August 2013- Thirteen university students from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan graduated today from the Fourth Central Asian School of Contemporary Journalism at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek...