News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre promotes integrated border management in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 10 October 2011
AKTAU, Kazakhstan, 10 October 2011- A four-day OSCE-organized workshop on integrated border management for 15 Kazakhstani border service officials began today in Aktau, a city on the Caspian Sea...
OSCE assists in building capacity of customs officers in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 19 September 2011
Ashgabat, 19 September 2011 – An OSCE-supported ‘train-the-trainer’ course on communication skills in customs opened at the Customs Training Centre in Ashgabat today...
OSCE Centre supports free legal consultation for residents in border areas in southern Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 14 July 2011
A series of legal consultations were held between 6 and 14 July 2011 in the border districts of the Osh and Jalal-Abad Provinces with support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek...
OSCE Border Management Staff College partners with Interpol in fight against terrorism
Publishing date: 29 June 2011
The OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) hosted the sixth meeting of the Operational Working Group of the Interpol-led project KALKAN in Dushanbe from 28 to 29 June 2011...
OSCE seminar highlights good practices in border demarcation
Publishing date: 31 May 2011
VILNIUS, 31 May 2011 – Border officials, diplomats, scientists, cartographers, engineers and other experts today began discussing good practices in delimitation and demarcation of borders at an OSCE Chairmanship seminar in Vilnius...
OSCE-Mongolia Conference focuses on enhanced co-operation with Asian Partners in addressing common security challenges
Publishing date: 23 May 2011
ULAANBAATAR, 23 May 2011 – Strengthening synergies between the 56 participating States of the OSCE and its Asian Partners for Co-operation in addressing transnational threats, such as illicit drug trafficking; advancing international economic co-operation, in particular on transport and energy security; as well as promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms in the whole OSCE area, are key topics of the OSCE-Mongolia Conference that started in Ulaanbaatar today...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek holds joint training for Afghan and Kyrgyz customs officers
Publishing date: 27 April 2011
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek held training sessions on vehicle and container searches and border operations for Kyrgyz and Afghan customs officers at the customs point Ak-Jol on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border. Twenty participants from Afghanistan, including three trainers, together with customs instructors from the Training Centre of the State Customs Service of Kyrgyzstan as well as customs officers working at Ak-Jol border point, attended the course...