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OSCE Centre helps prosecutors fight cybercrime in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 5 November 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Countering terrorism
ASTANA, 5 November 2013- A two-day training seminar for prosecutors on countering cybercrime began today in Astana. The course, which is led by national and international experts, focuses on global issues related to cybercrime, in particular the increasing misuse of advanced computer systems by various criminal groups...
OSCE joins forces with international organizations to seek answers to irregular migration problem
Publishing date: 30 October 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Migration, Policing
A project organised jointly by the OSCE, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Organization for Migration, to map the links between irregular migration, migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings along the East Mediterranean Migration Route, began with a seminar in Vienna on 30 and 31 October 2013.
OSCE Chairperson condemns terrorist attack in Volgograd, sends condolences
Publishing date: 21 October 2013
LUXEMBOURG, 21 October 2013 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara today condemned a terrorist attack on a bus in the city of Volgograd in the Russian Federation...
Terrorist use of explosives in focus of OSCE discussion in Armenia
Publishing date: 14 October 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Countering terrorism
YEREVAN, 15 October 2013 – A roundtable meeting on hindering terrorists’ access to explosives through better control over the substances took place in Yerevan today with OSCE support...
International co-operation in fight against terrorism theme of OSCE conference in Kyiv
Publishing date: 10 October 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
KYIV, 10 October 2013 – A two-day conference on priorities for international co-operation in the fight against terrorism started today in Kyiv. The event is organized by the Ukrainian OSCE Chairmanship, with the support of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department...
Challenges linked to Afghanistan after 2014 in focus of OSCE meeting in Vienna
Publishing date: 9 October 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, Permanent Council
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 9 October 2013 – Challenges to security and stability of Afghanistan, its neighbours and larger region after 2014, and how the international community, including the OSCE, can bolster support to the Afghanistan transition process, was the theme of today’s joint meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation and the Permanent Council in Vienna...
OSCE Centre in Astana supports seminar on countering violent extremism and terrorism
Publishing date: 3 October 2013