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OSCE Centre trains Uzbek border guards and custom officials on intercepting illegal guns, spotting false travel documents

Publishing date: 25 October 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
TASHKENT, 25 October 2004- A training course aimed at improving Uzbekistan's border management, focusing on the problems of arms smuggling and the use of fake travel documents, was launched today by the OSCE Centre in Tashkent. This four-week...

Open Skies Treaty states discuss usage of unarmed observation flights for environmental purposes

Publishing date: 15 October 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 15 October 2004- Experts from 31 states party to the Open Skies Treaty today discussed the possible use of the Treaty's tools for ecological purposes, such as cases of floods, tornadoes, air and soil pollution as well as urbanisation. Some 80...

OSCE security forum urges destruction of thousands of tonnes of dangerous ammunition and weapons

Publishing date: 29 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control, Countering terrorism, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 29 September 2004- The OSCE's Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) held a special meeting today on the risks posed by poorly-guarded stockpiles of deteriorating surplus conventional weapons and munitions, left over from the Cold War era...

OSCE remains committed to an active role in Georgia

Publishing date: 10 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 10 September 2004- A group of 20 heads and members of delegations to the OSCE in Vienna paid a visit to Georgia from 5 to 9 September. The delegation, headed by Ambassador Ivan Naydenov, Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office...

OSCE-UNODC conference calls for better information sharing on border management

Publishing date: 9 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Border management, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 9 September 2004- Experts from 16 international organizations attending a conference on promoting more effective border management and security called for an increase in information sharing to address challenges of "open but safe borders". On

OSCE experts help Tajikistan secure surplus small arms and light weapons and ammunition

Publishing date: 24 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
DUSHANBE, 24 August 2004- At the request of the Government of Tajikistan, a group of OSCE experts, assisted by a Russian, have been visiting Dushanbe from 19 to 24 August to conduct a study on the situation regarding surplus Small Arms...

OSCE Chairman urges demilitarisation of Georgian-Ossetian conflict

Publishing date: 20 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SOFIA, 20 August 2004- OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy expressed concern over recent developments in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in messages to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity. In a