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OSCE Mission programme to support Georgia's border management reform concludes with graduation of officers
Publishing date: 27 March 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management, Education, Countering terrorism
TBILISI, 27 March 2009-The graduation of 25 border police, patrol police and revenue service officers today following an OSCE-organized course marked the end of an OSCE Mission to Georgia programme to support border management reform...
OSCE Mission helps Georgian government improve border management
Publishing date: 7 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management
TBILISI, 7 August 2008- Strengthening border management was the focus of an OSCE-organized workshop for Georgian and Azerbaijani border management and security agencies that ended today in the Georgian district of Lagodekhi...
OSCE Missions to help Georgian authorities with border management issues
Publishing date: 19 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management
SKOPJE/TBILISI, 19 March 2007- Representatives of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and the country's Border Police will visit Georgia this week to help conduct a study on border management...
OSCE Mission launches capacity-building training for high-ranking Georgian Border Police
Publishing date: 4 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management, Education
TBILISI, 4 September 2006- An OSCE training programme to help make Georgia's border management more effective by improving the operational planning and rapid reaction capacity of the Georgian Border Police began today...
First group of Georgian border guards graduate from OSCE Mission's intensive training programme
Publishing date: 12 July 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management
TBILISI, 12 July 2005- A group of 77 Georgian border guards, newly equipped with specialist skills, are the first people to graduate from a four-week OSCE Mission to Georgia Training Assistance Programme course. "By the end of this summer, nearly 400...
OSCE decides to set up training scheme for Georgian border guards
Publishing date: 14 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management
VIENNA, 14 April 2005- At a meeting today, the OSCE Permanent Council unanimously approved a decision to establish a 2.6 million euros training assistance programme for the Georgian Border Guards service. Going into effect as early as next Monday, the...
OSCE prepared to assist further with solving conflicts in Georgia
Publishing date: 1 April 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management, Human rights, Policing
TBILISI, 1 April 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel pledged the Organization's support to promote peaceful settlements of the Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts, during talks in Tbilisi, Friday. "Peaceful resolution of...