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OSCE Chairman encouraged by signs of progress on Nagorno-Karabakh issue

Publishing date: 5 September 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution
BAKU, 5 September 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, said today in Baku that he was encouraged by progress on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue reached in the course of contacts between Azerbaijan and Armenia....

OSCE Mission to Skopje praises completion of border handover

Publishing date: 30 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Border management
Skopje, 30 August 2005- The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje today praised the Ministries of Defense and Interior on the successful transfer of border control from the military to the border police.

OSCE Centre in Ashgabad trains more Turkmen customs officials in computer skills

Publishing date: 29 August 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Border management
ASHGABAD, 29 August 2005- Twenty Turkmen customs officials have just completed a three-month computer course and have received certificates of completion from the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad.

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 Chairman discusses Central Asia and Kosovo with U.S. Secretary of State

Publishing date: 1 July 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Democratization, Border management, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution
WASHINGTON, 1 July 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, expressed concern about the situation in Uzbekistan and the plight of Uzbek refugees in Kyrgyzstan during talks with the U.S. Secretary of State...

OSCE meeting focuses on border security and combating illegal migration in South-Eastern Europe

Publishing date: 15 June 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Border management
BRDO PRI KRANJU, Slovenia, 15 June 2005- Fighting organized crime, trafficking and illegal migration in South-Eastern Europe was the main subject of a two-day regional meeting in Brdo pri Kranju, organised by the Slovenian OSCE Chairmanship...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office concerned about four deported Uzbek asylum-seekers

Publishing date: 14 June 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Democratization, Border management, Human rights, National minority issues, Rule of law
LONDON, 14 June 2005- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, said today he was deeply concerned about the fate of four asylum seekers, who were returned to Uzbekistan Friday by authorities in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan...