News and press releases

An OSCE-supported regional workshop on trade facilitation and border protection concluded on 25 August 2017 in Astana. Some 60 officials of Kazakhstan’s Finance Ministry and trade representatives from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan reviewed the challenges and

The last in a series of three OSCE-supported regional roundtable discussions on promoting green technologies with a focus on organic agriculture concluded on 8 August 2017 in Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan...

ASTANA, 2 August 2017- The OSCE-supported Second International Women’s Forum on Future Energy: Women, Business, and the Global Economy began today in Astana for some 200 participants including high-level government officials and representatives of Kazakhstan’s Parliament, civil society and the business community...

An OSCE-supported five-day regional training seminar for some 30 law enforcement officials from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan on investigating financial crimes and recovering stolen assets began on 31 July 2017 in Astana...

ASTANA, 14 July 2017 – A three-day needs assessment mission to explore how the OSCE can support Kazakhstan in facilitating regional trade concluded today in Astana...

ASTANA, 11 July 2017 – A two-day anti-corruption needs assessment mission conducted by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities with the support of the OSCE Programme Office in Astana concludes today. The mission was held in the framework of a regional OSCE extra-budgetary project aimed at strengthening anti-corruption efforts in Central Asia...

An OSCE-supported two-day training seminar on best practices in combating corruption concluded on 28 June 2017 in Astana...