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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
Publishing date: 27 January 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution
Weapons of mass destruction present a serious challenge to international peace and security. Stopping their proliferation requires a co-ordinated and comprehensive international response. United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 requires all states to contribute to putting in place the necessary structures to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, including their means of delivery...
OSCE presents study on migration data in Dushanbe, discusses steps to harmonize data collection
Publishing date: 20 January 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Economic activities
DUSHANBE, 20 January 2011 – The preliminary findings and recommendations from an assessment of Tajikistan's collection of migration data by the OSCE and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) were presented to policymakers and data users at a meeting in Dushanbe today...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports training border officers to use Interpol database
Publishing date: 19 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism, Policing
BISHKEK, 20 December 2010- A training course for Kyrgyz border troops officers from remote border checkpoints in south Kyrgyzstan on the practical use of the Interpol database, organized by the Interpol National Central Bureau with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, started today in Bishkek...
Travel document security focus of OSCE-supported training course in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 15 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
ASHGABAT, 16 December 2010- Twenty officials from the National Security Ministry, Interior Ministry, State Border Service and State Migration Service are taking part in an OSCE training course on travel document security that opened in Ashgabat today...
Experts discuss Summit outcomes at Vienna Roundtable
Publishing date: 13 December 2010
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
A group of academics from across the OSCE region met in the first OSCE Vienna Roundtable event to discuss the outcome of the 2010 Astana Summit.
OSCE-supported meeting in Central Asia focuses on countering incitement to terrorism
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Countering terrorism
TASHKENT, 9 December 2010- Counter-terrorism experts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are discussing how to best counter incitement to terrorism and violent extremism at an OSCE-supported regional seminar that began in Tashkent today...
OSCE Special Representative calls for recognition of trafficking in human beings as massive-scale problem in new report
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 9 December- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, called on countries to change their perception considering human trafficking as a marginal phenomenon and instead encouraged them to recognize it as a massive-scale modern-day slavery in a speech today to the OSCE Permanent Council...