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OSCE provides equipment to improve national passport system in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 10 February 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing, Rule of law
TASHKENT, 10 February 2011 – In a ceremony held in Tashkent today the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan handed over to the representatives of Uzbekistan’s Interior and Foreign Ministries equipment to support the government's efforts to improve the national passport system and introduce biometric identity and travel documents...
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...
Secure passports in focus at OSCE workshop in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 8 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
TASHKENT, 8 October 2010- An OSCE-supported training course that studied what Uzbekistan needs to do to participate in an international technical platform designed to validate biometric data stored in electronic passports, concluded today in Tashkent...
Co-operation in fight against terrorism theme of OSCE workshop in Tashkent
Publishing date: 29 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
TASHKENT, 29 September 2008- Fostering co-operation among police and other agencies in Central Asia is the purpose of a regional OSCE workshop that started today in Tashkent...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator helps train Central Asian police dog handlers to combat organized crime, terrorism
Publishing date: 28 August 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Education, Countering terrorism, Policing, Rule of law
TASHKENT, 28 August 2007- A four-month regional training course on combating organized crime and terrorism for 22 police dog handlers from Central Asian countries ended in Tashkent today...
OSCE helps organize regional seminar in Tashkent on preventing nuclear terrorism
Publishing date: 13 April 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Countering terrorism
TASHKENT, 13 April 2007- A regional workshop for Central Asian countries and Afghanistan on suppressing acts of nuclear terrorism ended in Tashkent today...
OSCE holds workshop to help Uzbekistan improve travel document security
Publishing date: 2 March 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Countering terrorism, Rule of law
TASHKENT, 2 March 2007- More than 50 experts from the Interior Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, the National Security Service and other institutions discussed how Uzbekistan's travel document security can be improved...