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The fourth Entrepreneurship Support Centre (ESC) in Kyrgyzstan opened on 12 November 2019 in Karakol...

More than 25 canine officers (K-9) of the State Committee for National Security, Ministry of Interior and the State Customs Services (KSCS) completed OSCE-supported advanced train–the-trainers courses at the World Customs Organization’s Regional Training Centre in Bishkek from 7 to 25 October 2019...

Promoting regional trade and co-operation in the Central Asian region is an important part of the OSCE’s confidence building in the area of economic and environmental activities. Over 1,500 entrepreneurs arrived in Osh to participate at the third international trade exhibition “South-Expo”, a two-day event that concluded on 12 September 2019...

Thirty young entrepreneurs completed the first-ever four-week ”Mini-MBA” in Business Management, initiated by the Entrepreneurship Support Centre (ESC) in Osh with the support of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, on 12 July 2019...

A capacity building workshop for Central Asian states entitled “Strengthening National, Sub-Regional and International Capacities to Prepare for and Respond to Deliberate Use of Biological Weapons” in the framework of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) was conducted from 26 to 27 June 2019 in Bishkek. The workshop was organized by UNODA’s Implementation Support Unit of the BWC in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek and the Ministry of Economy of Kyrgyzstan...

The annual International Summer School “Sustainable Development of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Member States through Dialogue and Digitalization” is taking place from 18 to 23 June 2019 in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan...

On 15 and 17 May 2019 the Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, Ambassador Pierre von Arx, together with local authorities, members of the Kyrgyz Parliament and entrepreneurs, opened two new Entrepreneurship Support Centres (ECS) in the cities of Djalal-Abad and Batken, southern Kyrgyzstan.