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OSCE Centre, Tajik Interior Ministry open facility to store and destroy small arms and light weapons

Publishing date: 22 June 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
DUSHANBE, 22 June 2006- The OSCE Centre in Dushanbe and the Tajik Interior Ministry today opened a storage and destruction facility for small arms and light weapons (SALW) in Dushanbe. Located at...

Representatives from 30 States review CFE Treaty in Vienna

Publishing date: 30 May 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control
VIENNA, 30 May 2006- Representatives of 30 States gathered in Vienna today for the Third Review Conference of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, widely known as the CFE Treaty...

OSCE Secretary General visits rocket fuel disposal site in Armenia

Publishing date: 12 May 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Arms control, Economic activities, Environmental activities
YEREVAN, 12 May 2006- OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, who is on a two-day visit to Armenia, today applauded the imminent start of the recycling of 872 tons of mélange rocket fuel...

OSCE Chairman expresses condolences after French expert dies in landmine accident in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 20 April 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
BRUSSELS, 20 April 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, expressed his condolences to the family of a French expert who was killed when a landmine exploded in Tajikistan on 19 April...

Boost for mine detection in Tajikistan- OSCE, UN open dog training centre

Publishing date: 4 April 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
DUSHANBE, 4 April 2006- A new centre for training dogs that will help detect landmines opened today in Rudaki, in the barracks of an Engineering Battalion of the Tajik Defence Ministry, some 15 km from the capital Dushanbe. It will have...

OSCE Centre organizes training trip to Germany for Turkmen arms control officers

Publishing date: 5 December 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Arms control
ASHGABAD, 5 December 2005- Three arms control officers from the Defence and Foreign ministries of Turkmenistan took part in a two-week practical training in Germany, organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad...

OSCE experts visit Kaliningrad, work out plan to destroy surplus munitions

Publishing date: 22 November 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control
VIENNA, 22 November 2005- A team of OSCE experts visited the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation from 15 to 22 November to work out a plan for the destruction of some 20,000 metric tons of surplus conventional ammunition...