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OSCE helps control export of small arms and light weapons
Publishing date: 29 September 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution
To prevent small arms and light weapons (SALW) from getting into the wrong hands, countries need to ensure that there are sufficient safeguards in the procedures for their export.
OSCE role in preventing proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in focus at meeting in Vienna
Publishing date: 14 July 2011
Representatives of the 56 OSCE participating States on 13 July 2011 discussed how to best r implement U.N. Security Council Resolution 1540, which obliges signatories to take measures against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, including chemical, biological and nuclear weapons...
OSCE Secretary General emphasizes need to secure ammunitions and weapons stocks following Cyprus explosion
Publishing date: 11 July 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Arms control
VIENNA, 11 July 2011 – The deadly explosion of munitions at a military base in Cyprus underlines that work to secure ammunition and weapons stocks is of utmost urgency, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said today...
OSCE signs contract extension to remove remainder of toxic rocket fuel component from Ukraine
Publishing date: 15 June 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Arms control, Environmental activities
OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Omelianchuk on 15 June 2011 signed a contract extension with a Russian consortium for the safe disposal of 9,500 tonnes of a toxic rocket fuel component stored in Ukraine...
Recent conflicts, new threats underline need for adapted military doctrine, Italian official says at OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 24 May 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation
VIENNA, 24 May 2011 – Contemporary and recent conflicts have demonstrated that military measures alone cannot create security, Italian Lieutenant General Paolo Magro said today at the opening session of an OSCE seminar on military doctrine...
New OSCE decision to prevent surplus ammunition falling into wrong hands
Publishing date: 23 March 2011
VIENNA, 23 March 2011 – The 56 OSCE participating States today adopted a decision that aims to prevent surplus, expired or obsolete conventional ammunition from ending up in the hands of criminal or terrorist groups...
OSCE starts clean-up of toxic rocket fuel component from third military base in Ukraine
Publishing date: 19 November 2010
Content type: Press release
What we do: Arms control, Economic activities, Environmental activities
RADEKHIV, Ukraine, 19 November- Specialists filled railway tanks with a toxic rocket fuel component that had been stored in deteriorating containers at a military base in Western Ukraine today in preparation for shipping...