News and press releases

KYIV, 31 January 2012 – The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) today handed over IT equipment for 23 risk and criminal analysis units of the Ukraine's State Border Guard Service...

A regional workshop organized by the OSCE to help combat the trafficking of strategic dual-use commodities and conventional weapons, including small arms and light weapons, started in Valletta, Malta on 24 January 2012...

With the beginning of 2012, a new department has been established that will improve the OSCE’s work on combating transnational threats (TNT), OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier announced on 10 January 2012...

The OSCE and the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) held an intensive train–the-trainers course for border guard officers on the rights of refugees and asylum seekers as well as reception practices at border entry points from 21 to 30 November 2011...

The Head of the EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM), Udo Burkholder, addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on 1 December 2011. He outlined the activities and future priority areas of EUBAM, whose mandate was recently extended for the third time into 2015...

A two-and-a-half day workshop for border service and customs officials began in Merke, on Kazakhstan's southern border with Kyrgyzstan, on 28 November 2011. The OSCE Centre in Astana organized the seminar in co-operation with the EU/UNDP Border Management Programme for Central Asia, the International Organization for Migration and the border services and customs agencies of Kazakhstan...

The first provincial-level border security meeting with representatives of border management agencies, government officials and residents of border areas in the districts of Kara-Suu and Aravan took place on 16 November 2011 in Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan...