Newsroom
News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE-wide workshop in Vienna highlights best practices in delimitation and demarcation of borders
Publishing date: 3 November 2016
VIENNA, 3 November 2016 – A three-day OSCE-wide workshop on delimitation and demarcation practices, which brought together thirty senior ranking representatives of national boundary commissions from various OSCE participating States, concluded today in Vienna. Discussions focused on the legal aspects of international boundaries and specific national experiences...
OSCE launches project on enhancing the capacity of Police and Customs Co-operation Centres in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 25 October 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Border management
SKOPJE, 25 October 2016 – An OSCE project to enhance the capacity of Police and Customs Co-operation Centres in South-Eastern Europe was launched today at a conference in Skopje, which brought together heads of police, the border police, and customs services from across the Western Balkans...
OSCE trains Mongolian law enforcement personnel on detecting forged travel documents
Publishing date: 17 October 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
ULAANBAATAR, 17 October 2016 – A one-week intensive training course for Mongolian law enforcement personnel aimed at increasing their operational awareness to detect forged travel documents started today in Ulaanbaatar. This is the first of a series of trainings courses organized by the OSCE on detecting forged documents that will take place every autumn in Mongolia over the next five years to 2020...
OSCE supports advanced training course in Germany on addressing cross-border challenges in identification of foreign terrorist fighters
Publishing date: 7 September 2016
GARMISH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany, 7 September 2016 – An OSCE-supported training course for 17 border security and management officers and counter-terrorism experts from participating States and Partners for Co-operation countries on the identification of foreign terrorist fighters (FTF) concluded today in Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany. The one-week course is the second stage of a multi-phase project to establish the first ever OSCE multi-national and multi-agency mobile training team for the identification of FTF at the borders...
OSCE and UNECE join forces in promoting trade facilitation in Central Asia
Publishing date: 15 June 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Economic activities, Border management
DUSHANBE, 15 June 2016 – A three-day regional trade facilitation and border management workshop gathering senior trade and customs officials from UN Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) countries Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan concluded today at the Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe...
OSCE Gender Equality Platform for Border Security and Management launched in Helsinki
Publishing date: 17 May 2016
The Launch Meeting of the OSCE Gender Equality Platform for Border Security and Management was held in the premises of the Finnish Customs School in Helsinki on 17-18 May 2016 bringing together representatives from across the OSCE region to discuss women’s leadership and empowerment in border security and management...
OSCE organizes final training courses in Ukraine on detecting forged travel documents
Publishing date: 2 May 2016
CHERKASY, Ukraine, 2 May 2016 – Two six-day training courses for Ukrainian border control officers aimed at increasing their operational awareness to recognize original, forged and false documents, and in using forensic equipment to identify document forgery, started today in Cherkasy...