News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE concludes seminars on risk profiling for Kazakhstan’s border service
Publishing date: 10 October 2016
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...
Afghan border police officers, at OSCE course in Turkmenistan, discuss border security
Publishing date: 30 September 2016
ASHGABAT, 30 September 2016- Thirteen middle-rank border police officers from the northern border of Afghanistan today completed a five-day OSCE-supported executive general patrol course organized in the capital of Turkmenistan...
Officials from Tajik and Afghan customs services learn about enhancing electronic exchange of information at OSCE workshop in Dushanbe
Publishing date: 28 September 2016
DUSHANBE, 28 September 2016 – A workshop on the electronic exchange of customs information to facilitate legitimate trade and improve border crossing was the focus of a week-long workshop organized by the Border Unit of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and conducted at the Office’s Border Management Staff College...
Border Guards complete OSCE training course on patrolling in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 24 September 2016
ASHGABAT, 24 September 2016 – A series of training courses for the State Border Service of Turkmenistan, organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, concluded today near Ashgabat...
Border and customs officers trained on border inspections at regional OSCE-supported event in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 September 2016
An OSCE-supported workshop for 20 border guards and customs officers from Central Asian countries on border inspection ethics and public service standards began on 20 September 2016 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE trains Kazakhstan’s border service in profiling techniques
Publishing date: 12 September 2016
The fourth in a series of five OSCE-supported training seminars on profiling techniques at border checkpoints to help counter transnational crime started on 12 September in Karasu, Southern Kazakhstan...
OSCE supports advanced training course in Germany on addressing cross-border challenges in identification of foreign terrorist fighters
Publishing date: 7 September 2016
GARMISH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany, 7 September 2016 – An OSCE-supported training course for 17 border security and management officers and counter-terrorism experts from participating States and Partners for Co-operation countries on the identification of foreign terrorist fighters (FTF) concluded today in Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany. The one-week course is the second stage of a multi-phase project to establish the first ever OSCE multi-national and multi-agency mobile training team for the identification of FTF at the borders...