News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE-UNDP train-the-trainer course introduces officials from Afghan and Tajik national border training centres to modern instructional methods
Publishing date: 17 February 2016
DUSHANBE, 17 February 2016 – Eleven border officials from national training institutions of Afghanistan and Tajikistan completed a week-long train-the-trainer course today at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe, focusing on modern instructional methods...
Tajik border troops complete OSCE-supported search and rescue training course
Publishing date: 5 February 2016
DUSHANBE, 5 February 2016 – Seventeen officers from the Main Directorate of Tajik Border Troops graduated today from a two-week training course on search and rescue at the Gissar Training Centre, Tajikistan. The course was organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
OSCE-supported Kyrgyz State Border Service Press Centre opens in Bishkek
Publishing date: 17 December 2015
BISHKEK, 17 December 2015 – The first Kyrgyz State Border Service Press Centre, supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, opened today in the country’s capital, with the aim of enhancing internal and external communication between the Service’s border units, and in establishing the Service’s coherent and transparent approach towards the media and public...
OSCE organizes lectures on border security management procedures for Navy Institute cadets in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 17 December 2015
TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan, 17 December 2015 – Enhancing land and maritime border management security capabilities of future border guards was the aim of a series of training lectures organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat for 130 cadets at the Navy Institute of Turkmenistan’s Defence Ministry, which conclude tomorrow in Turkmenbashi...
Researchers and practitioners discuss innovative solutions to border issues at OSCE Border Management Staff College
Publishing date: 10 December 2015
DUSHANBE, 10 December 2015 – Innovative solutions to address border issues using new technologies and methods were discussed at the four-day OSCE Cross-Border Research Conference in Dushanbe which concluded today with a study trip to Tajikistan’s nearby border with Afghanistan...
Customs instructors enhance training delivery capacity at OSCE, WCO-supported train-the-trainer course
Publishing date: 4 December 2015
DUSHANBE, 4 December 2015 – Fifteen instructors from the national training customs institutions of Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Tajikistan concluded today a ten-day train-the-trainer course in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, organized jointly by the OSCE Border Management Staff College and the World Customs Organization’s (WCO) Programme Global Shield (PGS)...
Afghan and Tajik border officers complete OSCE-supported train-the-trainer course
Publishing date: 2 December 2015
DUSHANBE, 2 December 2015 – Ten officers from the Afghan Border Police and 14 officers from the Tajik Border Troops completed a two-week train-the-trainer course today jointly organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the EU-funded Border Management Northern Afghanistan (BOMNAF) project...