News and press releases

SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 5 April 2012 – A two-day training course on environmental reporting for journalists began today in Shymkent in southern Kazakhstan. The course was organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana together with the NGO MediaNet International Centre for Journalism, the Southern Kazakhstan Regional Administration, and the newly established Shymkent Aarhus Centre...

ATYRAU, Kazakhstan, 4 April 2012 – Promoting the Aarhus Convention with a special focus on public participation in water and environmental programmes in western Kazakhstan was the topic of a roundtable discussion held in Atyrau today...

Research on water quality and fish fauna in the Dniester River, supported by the OSCE Office of the Co-ordinator of Economic and Environmental Activities in partnership with the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), was published on 27 March 2012. The research points to declining water quality towards the mouth of the Dniester, while fish species have halved over the past decade...

A one-day international conference on environment, innovation and sustainable development was held in Almaty on 30 March 2012...

BISHKEK, 26 March 2012 – Twenty-four students from Central Asia and Afghanistan – enrolled in the OSCE Academy’s newly launched Masters programme in Economic Governance and Development – started today a one-week teaching module devoted to the OSCE’s work in the economic and environmental field...

A three-day simulation exercise on emergency management for representatives of municipal emergency headquarters from Nova Varos, Prijepolje and Priboj took place from 21 to 23 March 2012 in Zlatibor...

The OSCE Mission supported the removal of radioactive industrial waste from an enterprise based in Rybnitsa on the left bank of Dniestr/Nistru to a safe storage facility outside Chişinău on 15 March 2012...