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OSCE promotes water quality in transboundary Chu-Talas River Basin
Publishing date: 19 November 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities, Water management
The sixth meeting of the Working Group on environmental protection under the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Chu-Talas Water Commission took place on 16 November 2018 in Bishkek. The meeting was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek in close co-operation with the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Chu-Talas Water Commission...
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development focus of OSCE-organized Aarhus Centres meeting in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 20 September 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Environmental activities
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 20 September 2018- The Aarhus Centres and Public Environmental Information Centres from 15 countries concluded today in Issyk-Kul a two-day meeting on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its goals...
Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan and Head of OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek discuss bilateral co-operation
Publishing date: 7 August 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Economic activities, Environmental activities
Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Muhammetkaliy Abylgaziev and the Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek Pierre von Arx discussed bilateral co-operation and the implementation of the OSCE programme and project activities in the country, including priority efforts in supporting reforms in the area of anti-corruption and economic development on 2 August 2018, at the Office of the Prime Minister in Bishkek...
OSCE and National Guard of Kyrgyzstan: join efforts to enhance security of energy infrastructure of Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 25 October 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Disaster risk reduction, Environmental activities
The OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek handed over video surveillance equipment to the National Guard of the Armed Forces of Kyrgyzstan to enhance the security of the country’s strategic energy facilities, the Tash-Kumyr and Kurpsai hydroelectric power stations on 20 October 2017 in Bishkek. The stations are part of Kyrgyzstan’s largest Naryn hydropower plant cascade...
OSCE supports training seminar for Kyrgyz judges on facilitating citizens’ access to justice on environmental issues
Publishing date: 4 November 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 4 November 2016 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported Kyrgyzstan’s Aarhus Centre Network and the Training Centre of the country’s Supreme Court to conduct training for judges on facilitating citizens’ access to justice on environmental matters, thereby fostering the implementation of the third pillar of the Aarhus Convention...
Cross-border co-operation and joint action are essential in reducing disaster risk, conclude participants of OSCE disaster risk reduction training in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 7 October 2016
Content type: Press release
What we do: Disaster risk reduction, Environmental activities
KAIRAKKUM, Tajikistan, 7 October 2016 – A three and a half-day training course on disaster risk reduction for central government agencies, local administrations and Aarhus Centres from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan concluded today in Kairakkum, Tajikistan...
OSCE opens training centre to improve the quality of environmental monitoring in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 3 October 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 3 October 2016 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported the opening of a training centre in Osh with the aim of increasing the capacity of state and public inspectors of the State Inspectorate of Environmental and Technical Safety (SIETS) and the State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry (SAEPF)...