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OSCE Mission to Skopje trains police officers on combatting terrorist organizations
Publishing date: 19 August 2013
The OSCE Mission to Skopje is organizing a training course on combatting terrorist organizations that are linked to religious extremists, from 19 to 23 August 2013...
OSCE/ODIHR delegation visits United States and Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility
Publishing date: 2 August 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Countering terrorism
WASHINGTON, D.C., 2 August 2013 – A delegation from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) was in Washington, D.C. this week to gather information on proceedings before military commissions involving detainees at the Guantanamo Detention Facility...
OSCE supports conference in Tajikistan on combating cyber crime
Publishing date: 3 July 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Countering terrorism
DUSHANBE, 3 July 2013 – A two-day conference on combating cyber crime concluded in Dushanbe today with the support of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
CIS Executive Secretary says co-operation must be strengthened in building security community, addressing transnational threats, observing elections
Publishing date: 27 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
What we do: Border management, Elections, Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 27 June 2013- The Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Sergey Lebedev, in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council today, highlighted the need to step up co-operation between international organizations in building a security community, addressing transnational threats, including in the context of “Afghanistan post-2014”, and observing elections...
OSCE trains Tajik counter-terrorism teams in VIP protection
Publishing date: 24 June 2013
A ten-day field training course for Interior Ministry counter-terrorism teams on VIP protection, facilitated by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, concluded on 19 June 2013 in the central district of Garm...
OSCE trains border staff in Kazakhstan on anti-crime and terrorism strategies
Publishing date: 19 June 2013
Some 20 border and customs officials from Kazakhstan were trained in best practices to combat organized crime and terrorism during a three-day seminar that began on 19 June 2013 in Aktau, Mangystau Region...
Preventing terrorist use of explosives and chemicals discussed at OSCE meeting in Sarajevo
Publishing date: 5 June 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on 5 June 2013 a roundtable meeting in Sarajevo on the implementation of preventive aspects of the International Terrorist Bombings Convention...