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OSCE and Partners Support Co-operation for Enhancing Financial Investigation Capacities for Economic Crimes
Publishing date: 15 May 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Economic activities, Countering terrorism
TASHKENT, 15 May 2015 – Developing financial investigation capabilities and improving co-operation among national law enforcement agencies, prosecutors and Financial Investigation Units (FIU) for detecting and disrupting criminal networks were key topics of a three-day workshop that ended today in Tashkent...
OSCE-supported conference in Uzbekistan underscores need for international and regional co-operation in countering terrorism
Publishing date: 22 April 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Countering terrorism
TASHKENT, 22 April 2015 – An international conference on fighting terrorism as a transnational threat to security, supported by the OSCE, began today in Tashkent...
OSCE officials highlight co-operation by regional and global organizations as key to fighting transnational crime
Publishing date: 15 April 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
DOHA, 15 April 2015 – Two senior OSCE officials speaking on Tuesday at the Thirteenth UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which runs from 12-19 April in Doha, stressed the need for common efforts by regional and global organizations to more effectively combat transnational organized crime...
OSCE Chairperson Dačić and Secretary General Zannier condemn horrific terrorist attack in Tunisia
Publishing date: 18 March 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Countering terrorism
BELGRADE, 18 March 2015 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, and the Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, condemned the horrific terrorist attack in Tunis today, and expressed their deepest condolences to the families and relatives of the victims...
OSCE convenes first workshop in Central Asia on countering phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters
Publishing date: 26 February 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Countering terrorism
DUSHANBE, 26 February 2015 – A three-day expert workshop on promoting regional co-operation in Central Asia and effective responses to the phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters, concluded today in Dushanbe...
OSCE Secretary General addresses White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism
Publishing date: 20 February 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat
The OSCE’s comprehensive approach to security, which embraces human rights and democracy, economics and environment as well as politico-military security, offers a powerful antidote to violent extremism, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier told high-level officials from around the world at the Ministerial Meeting of the White House Countering Violent Extremism Summit in Washington, DC, on 19 February 2015...
OSCE holds brainstorming session on enhancing OSCE efforts to promote tolerance, non-discrimination and dialogue to counter radicalization and extremism
Publishing date: 4 February 2015
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Tolerance and non-discrimination
Vienna, 4 February 2015 – At the initiative of OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, delegations of OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation held an open-ended brainstorming session on ways to strengthen OSCE efforts to promote tolerance, non-discrimination and dialogue and to mobilise its tools and resources to address the growing challenge of violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism.