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OSCE-wide workshop in Vienna highlights best practices in delimitation and demarcation of borders

Publishing date: 3 November 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management
VIENNA, 3 November 2016 – A three-day OSCE-wide workshop on delimitation and demarcation practices, which brought together thirty senior ranking representatives of national boundary commissions from various OSCE participating States, concluded today in Vienna. Discussions focused on the legal aspects of international boundaries and specific national experiences...

OSCE Border Management Staff College concludes its sixteenth Staff Course

Publishing date: 28 October 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 28 October 2016- The 16th Border Management Staff Course concluded at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe today...

OSCE launches project on enhancing the capacity of Police and Customs Co-operation Centres in South-Eastern Europe

Publishing date: 25 October 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Border management
SKOPJE, 25 October 2016 – An OSCE project to enhance the capacity of Police and Customs Co-operation Centres in South-Eastern Europe was launched today at a conference in Skopje, which brought together heads of police, the border police, and customs services from across the Western Balkans...

Challenges related to foreign terrorist fighters and counter terrorism strategies in focus at OSCE Border Management Staff College event

Publishing date: 24 October 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 24 October 2016 – A roundtable discussion on the phenomenon of foreign fighters and counter-terrorism strategies that brought together experts, scholars, representatives of government agencies, civil society, diplomatic missions, international organizations and participants of the 16th Border Management Staff Course, ended today in Dushanbe...

Afghan border police officers complete OSCE patrol leadership course in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 19 October 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 19 October 2016 – Nineteen Afghan border police officers graduated today from the OSCE-supported patrolling and leadership course, which was held from 22 September to 19 October 2016 at the Gissar Training Centre, Tajikistan...

OSCE trains Mongolian law enforcement personnel on detecting forged travel documents

Publishing date: 17 October 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Border management, Countering terrorism, Migration
ULAANBAATAR, 17 October 2016 – A one-week intensive training course for Mongolian law enforcement personnel aimed at increasing their operational awareness to detect forged travel documents started today in Ulaanbaatar. This is the first of a series of trainings courses organized by the OSCE on detecting forged documents that will take place every autumn in Mongolia over the next five years to 2020...

OSCE concludes seminars on risk profiling for Kazakhstan’s border service

Publishing date: 10 October 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Border management
ASTANA, 10 October 2016- The fifth and concluding OSCE-supported training seminar for some 20 officers of the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee on profiling techniques to counter transnational threats, began today in Astana...