News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE organizes intensive border management training for OSCE Mediterranean Points of Contact Network
Publishing date: 22 December 2017
Members of the OSCE Mediterranean Points of Contact Network on border management and security completed a four-day intensive training course on various topics related to their work on 22 December 2017 in Vienna.
OSCE organizes workshop on Advance Passenger Information System in Skopje
Publishing date: 14 December 2017
A workshop on how to establish an Advance Passenger Information (API) System in Skopje, aimed at preventing the movement of foreign terrorist fighters and combating terrorism and transnational crime, was organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Border Security and Management Unit (TNTD/BSMU) in Skopje from 12 to 14 December 2017.
OSCE organizes training-of-trainers course in Ukraine on detecting forged documents
Publishing date: 14 December 2017
A two-week advanced train-the-trainer course for ten Ukrainian border control officers took place from 4 to 14 December 2017 in Cherkasy, Ukraine. Organized by the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD/BSMU), the course aimed to develop the officers’ knowledge about fraudulent documents and their teachings skills for delivering such training courses themselves in the future.
OSCE Border Security and Management Unit organizes seminar on delimitation and demarcation practices in OSCE Area
Publishing date: 30 November 2017
A two-day seminar on delimitation and demarcation practices in the OSCE area, organized by the Border Security and Management Unit (BSMU) of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, concluded on 30 November 2017 in Minsk.
OSCE trains Mongolian border officers on detecting forged travel documents
Publishing date: 29 November 2017
A one-week advanced train-the-trainer course on profiling, interviewing techniques and skills to detect forged documents for 15 Mongolian law enforcement officers, organized by the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD/BSMU), took place from 20 to 24 November 2017 in Ulaanbaatar.
Combating illicit cross-border trafficking of cultural property in Mediterranean region in focus at workshop organized by OSCE, Italy’s Carabinieri
Publishing date: 10 November 2017
VICENZA, Italy, 10 November 2017 – Practical measures to combat the illicit cross-border trafficking in cultural property in the Mediterranean Region was the focus of a five-day seminar, which concluded in Vicenza today. The seminar was designed to build the capacity of some 22 participants from
OSCE and Cyprus police organize international seminar on combating trafficking of cultural property and antiquities
Publishing date: 2 November 2017
Best practices and internationally available tools to prevent and counter trafficking in cultural property and antiquities was the focus of a three-day international seminar designed to build the capacity of some 60 participants from different national services, which concluded on 2 November 2017 in Larnaca, Cyprus.