News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre supports the creation of expert councils to monitor the implementation of largest infrastructure project in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 July 2012
ASTANA, 13 July 2012 – Some 40 representatives of state entities, non-governmental organizations, international financial institutions, banks and businesses met today for the first meeting of the National Expert Council for Transparency and Sustainable Development...
OSCE supports use of renewable energy in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 28 June 2012
TASHKENT, 28 June 2012 – The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan today organized a debate on a draft renewable energy law, that aims to boost the development of renewable energy sources, especially solar energy, wind, biogas and hydro power...
OSCE Mediterranean partners discuss environment and security
Publishing date: 18 June 2012
AMMAN, 18 June 2012 – Water scarcity, land degradation, climate change, energy security and the role of the civil society are the focus of a three-day workshop that started today in Amman, organized by the OSCE Office of the Co-ordinator for Economic and Environmental Activities and the Jordanian government...
OSCE-funded inspection boat and water-sampling platform launched to protect Dniester/Nistru River
Publishing date: 12 June 2012
A boat for fisheries inspectors and a water sampling platform on the Dniester/Nistru River were formally handed over to authorities in Moldova by representatives of the OSCE and its partner organizations, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), at a ceremony on 8 June 2012...
OSCE Centre in Astana celebrates World Environment Day
Publishing date: 5 June 2012
On the occasion of the 2012 World Environment Day on 5 June, staff of the OSCE Centre in Astana planted shrubs in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The theme of the 2012 World Environmental Day is “Green economy: does it include you?” The event was organized by the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia to raise awareness of environmental risks and ecological scarcities...
OSCE supports workshop on cross-border gas trade in Ashgabat
Publishing date: 1 June 2012
ASHAGABAT, 1 June 2012 – Energy diplomacy and key principles and concepts of cross-border gas trade were the topics of an OSCE-supported workshop that concluded in Ashgabat today...
OSCE Centre in Astana helps to enhance water co-operation
Publishing date: 29 May 2012
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 29 May 2012 – Sixty policy and decision makers, legal and technical experts, and academia and non-governmental organizations representatives from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia are taking part in a workshop on groundwater management which started today in Almaty...