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Early warning, regional mechanisms key to countering terrorist threat, OSCE anti-terrorism head tells UN committee
Publishing date: 28 September 2011
UNITED NATIONS, 28 September 2011 – Regional organizations have a critical role in putting global strategies to fight terrorism into practice, said Raphael Perl, the Head on Anti-Terrorism Issues at the OSCE Secretariat, at a special meeting of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee today...
OSCE holds expert meeting in Moldova on preventing and countering terrorist financing
Publishing date: 26 September 2011
CHISINAU, 27 September 2011 – Investigating and prosecuting the financing of terrorism is the focus of a three-day OSCE-organized meeting that opened today in Chisinau...
OSCE and Council of Europe leaders discussed joint efforts to fight terrorism and human trafficking, promote minority rights and support democratic transition processes in the Southern Mediterranean
Publishing date: 21 September 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretary General
NEW YORK, United States, 21 September 2011- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met the Council of Europe’s Chairperson of the Committee of Ministers, Ukraine’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, and Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland in New York today.
OSCE organizes workshop on public-private partnerships to enhance tourism security
Publishing date: 8 September 2011
VIENNA, 8 September 2011 – Participants of a two-day workshop organized by the OSCE that started in Vienna today will discuss tourism security within the framework of public-private partnerships...
OSCE explores next steps in strengthening comprehensive cyber security
Publishing date: 9 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
VIENNA, 9 May 2011- The OSCE’s future role in tackling challenges arising from cyberspace security is the topic of a two-day international conference that started in Vienna today...
OSCE uses comprehensive approach in fighting terrorism, Secretary General tells UN committee
Publishing date: 24 February 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Partnerships, OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
UNITED NATIONS, 24 February 2011 – The OSCE has a comprehensive approach to preventing and combating terrorism by focusing on all aspects of security and involving an array of partners, OSCE Secretary General, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, told the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee today...
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...