News and press releases

An OSCE-supported national seminar on identification and profiling techniques for officers of Kazakhstan’s Border Service and Migration Police concluded in Almaty on 13 December 2017...

A workshop on how to establish an Advance Passenger Information (API) System in Skopje, aimed at preventing the movement of foreign terrorist fighters and combating terrorism and transnational crime, was organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Border Security and Management Unit (TNTD/BSMU) in Skopje from 12 to 14 December 2017.

A two-week advanced train-the-trainer course for ten Ukrainian border control officers took place from 4 to 14 December 2017 in Cherkasy, Ukraine. Organized by the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD/BSMU), the course aimed to develop the officers’ knowledge about fraudulent documents and their teachings skills for delivering such training courses themselves in the future.

A fourth regional working meeting for the joint border police patrol border guards of Albania and Montenegro, organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania, the Montenegrin Interior Ministry’s Border Police and the Border and Migration Police of the Republic of Albania, took place on 11 December 2017 in Kolašin, Montenegro.

A study tour to the international airports of Moscow was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe for 15 representatives of Tajik Border Troops from 4 to 7 December 2017.

An OSCE-supported two-week train-the-trainer event for twenty-four officers from the Tajik Border Troops concluded on 8 December 2017.

A two-day seminar on delimitation and demarcation practices in the OSCE area, organized by the Border Security and Management Unit (BSMU) of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, concluded on 30 November 2017 in Minsk.