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Dialogue for enhanced European security in focus at joint session of OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation and Permanent Council
Publishing date: 9 March 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, Permanent Council
What we do: Arms control
VIENNA, 9 March 2016 – Current security challenges in the OSCE area need to be tackled through a comprehensive dialogue process with all participating States demonstrating political will, said speakers at a joint meeting today of the Organization’s Forum for Security Co-operation, currently chaired by the Netherlands, and its Permanent Council chaired by Germany...
OSCE High-Level Military Doctrine Seminar: Transparency and co-operation needed to build trust in the face of challenges eroding European security
Publishing date: 16 February 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 16 February 2016 – Improving mutual relations among OSCE participating States and enabling information exchange among military representatives with the aim of building trust and confidence is the focus of the two-day High-Level Military Doctrine Seminar organized by the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC), which opened today in Vienna...
Montenegro’s Defence Minister addresses OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation, urges States to continue supporting demilitarization
Publishing date: 2 April 2014
The ongoing Montenegro Demilitarization (MONDEM) Programme is a positive example of co-operation between Montenegro and the OSCE, and participating States should continue their support in order to complete the final phase of the project, Milica Pejanović-Djurisić, Montenegro’s Defence Minister told the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation on 2 April 2014...
The role of armed forces in democratic societies in Mediterranean discussed at OSCE Malta conference
Publishing date: 11 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution
ST. JULIAN’S /VIENNA, 11 September 2013 –Security sector governance and the role of armed forces in democratic societies are the topics of a three-day OSCE conference on the Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security starting today in Malta...
Toxic rocket fuel component fully removed from Eastern Ukraine with OSCE support
Publishing date: 4 September 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Forum for Security Co-operation
What we do: Arms control, Environmental activities
SHEVCHENKOVE, Ukraine, 4 September 2013 – Seven-hundred and sixty tonnes of mélange, a highly toxic Soviet-era rocket fuel component, were shipped today from Ukraine to Russia to be processed into chemical products for civilian use, under an OSCE-supported project...
Nearly 1,300 bombs and 19 missiles destroyed as part of large-scale OSCE Soviet-era ammunition demolition project in Georgia
Publishing date: 18 July 2013
The explosion of a cluster bomb on 12 July 2013 at a demolition range in Georgia marked the end of a two-year project by the OSCE and the United Nations Development Programme to help the country destroy 1,289 pieces of aircraft ammunition and 19 missiles...
OSCE removes latest batch of toxic rocket fuel component from Ukraine
Publishing date: 20 March 2013
A train carrying 376 tonnes of a toxic rocket fuel component, which had been stored in deteriorating containers at a site in Shevchenkove, left Ukraine on 20 March 2013 for safe disposal as part of a project supported by the OSCE...