News and press releases

The last in a series of six OSCE-supported five-day training courses on risk profiling at border checkpoints to assist eighteen officers of the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee in countering transnational threats concluded in Kostanai, Kazakhstan on 4 August 2017...

An OSCE-organized five-day training course on the detection of forged documents and imposters took place in Ashgabat from 24 to 28 July 2017. The course brought together representatives from Turkmenistan’s Interior and National Security Ministries, the State Border Service, and the State Migration Service...

Ten border officers from the Afghan Border Police and ten Tajik Border Troops completed a three-week training of trainers course on 26 July 2017. The course was organized under the Patrol Programming and Leadership project of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe...

DUSHANBE, 13 July 2017 – Twenty-two border and customs officers from Afghanistan and Tajikistan graduated from the Afghan Border Police Border Management Awareness Course today at the OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) in Dushanbe...

DUSHANBE, 7 July 2017 – Ambassador Tuula Yrjölä, Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, met Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister Aslov Sirodjidin Muhridinovich in Dushanbe today. She gave an update on the transition of the “OSCE Office in Tajikistan” into the “OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe”, which came into effect on 1 July 2017, as mandated by the OSCE Permanent Council Decision 1251...

Astana, 26 June 2017- An OSCE-supported workshop organized to familiarise participants with international experience on customs control procedures during transit of goods and vehicles, took place on 26 June 2017 in Astana.

DUSHANBE, 23 June 2017 – The OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) today concluded its second one-year Border Security and Management for Senior Leadership Course with participants defending their coursework in Dushanbe, Tajikistan...