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OSCE promotes interstate co-operation in maritime security at event in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 16 November 2012
ASHGABAT, 16 November 2012 – National experts from four Caspian littoral OSCE participating states discussed effective mechanisms of incident and conflict prevention and security management on the maritime borders at an OSCE-organized roundtable meeting that concluded in Ashgabat today...
OSCE trains Afghan, Tajik, Kyrgyz officers on border interdiction
Publishing date: 15 November 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 15 November 2012 – A five-day training course on cross-border interdiction for 25 Afghan, Kyrgyz and Tajik border and customs officers concluded today at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe...
Officials from Central Asia, Afghanistan discuss cross-border co-operation with Lithuanian counterparts at OSCE-supported event
Publishing date: 12 November 2012
Twenty-one officials from the border guard, border police and customs agencies of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan took part in an OSCE-organized seminar at the State Border Guard School in Medininkai in south-eastern part of Lithuania, which concluded on 9 November 2012...
OSCE Office trains Afghan police and Tajik troops in advanced border patrol
Publishing date: 12 November 2012
The OSCE Office in Tajikistan completed on 9 November 2012 in Dushanbe its first joint patrol medical course for Afghan border police and Tajik border troops as part of a project to enhance the capacities of both structures to detect and prevent illegal cross-border movement.
OSCE seminar discusses interagency co-operation in fighting illicit drugs in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 9 November 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Border management, Policing
ASHGABAT, 9 November 2012 – Representatives from Turkmenistan’s law-enforcement agencies discussed mechanisms for effective interagency co-operation to fight illicit drugs, at an OSCE-supported working seminar that concluded in Ashgabat today...
OSCE Office facilitates visit of Afghan de-mining experts to Tajikistan
Publishing date: 7 November 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 7 November 2012 – An OSCE-facilitated visit of a group of humanitarian de-mining experts from Afghanistan to share their experience with Tajik counterparts, started in Dushanbe today...
OSCE, UNDP complete border management awareness training courses for Tajik, Afghan officers
Publishing date: 1 November 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 1 November 2012 – The graduation ceremony for a ten-day intensive training course on border management awareness co-organized by the OSCE and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) took place at the OSCE Border Management Staff College today...