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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek supports governmental efforts to develop unified registry of crimes and misdemeanours
Publishing date: 27 September 2017
BISHKEK, 27 September 2017- Kazakh specialists shared their experience in the development of an electronic unified state registry of crimes and misdemeanours and other software applications used by the offices of the public prosecutor in Kazakhstan with representatives of the Kyrgyz General Prosecutor’s Office (GPO) and other stakeholders during a three-day visit of the Kazakh General Prosecutor’s staff to Bishkek, supported by the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, from 20 to 23 September 2017.
OSCE-supported training on state and municipal service law launched in Bishkek
Publishing date: 19 June 2017
A series of training sessions for state and municipal civil servants on the application of a newly adopted law “On state civil service and municipal service” started on 19 June 2017 in Bishkek...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports a pilot project on improving municipal services delivery in Balykchy
Publishing date: 23 August 2016
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 23 August 2016 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the Mayor’s Office of Balykchy and the International Republican Institute signed today a memorandum of understanding to support a pilot project on improving municipal services delivery in the town of Balykchy, northern Kyrgyzstan, through a so-called “single window model”...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports first Internet Governance Forum in Central Asia
Publishing date: 22 June 2016
BISHKEK, 22 June 2016 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported a two-day Internet Governance Forum in Central Asia, the first of its kind, which concluded today in the Kyrgyz capital...
Impact of corruption prevention measures at national and sectoral levels in focus at OSCE-supported expert meeting in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 26 May 2016
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 26 May 2016 – A two-day regional expert seminar which started today gathers some 60 anti-corruption practitioners, experts and policy-makers from 12 countries in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia to discuss effective preventive measures to combat corruption in the extractive industries and education sectors and to exchange best practices...
OSCE and partners support orientation seminar for members and staff of Kyrgyz parliament
Publishing date: 25 April 2016
BISHKEK, 25 April 2016 – A three-day OSCE-supported orientation seminar for some forty members of parliament and new parliamentary staff on the role and functions of Kyrgyzstan’s 120-seat legislature, the Jogorku Kenesh, concluded today at the Suparu ethno-complex outside Bishkek...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek recognized as “Partner of the Year- 2015” by Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations
Publishing date: 19 February 2016
The Kyrgyz Ministry of Emergency Situations awarded the OSCE Centre in Bishkek the title of “Partner of the Year- 2015” at a ceremony in Bishkek on 19 February 2016 as part of the Strategy on Disaster Risk Reduction 2030 Forum...