News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office in Tajikistan supports the second cycle of explosive ordnance disposal training for regional specialists
Publishing date: 21 April 2016
More than 40 specialists from Afghanistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan completed a training seminar on advanced explosive ordnance disposal on April 20 2016 in Dushanbe, organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan as a part of a multi-year project...
OSCE confidence- and security-building measures must be adapted to current security challenges, says Polish Foreign Ministry Under-Secretary of State
Publishing date: 13 April 2016
VIENNA, 13 April 2016 – As Poland takes over the rotating Chairmanship of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC), Under-Secretary of State with the Foreign Ministry Marek Ziółkowski said that one of the main tasks of his country will be to strengthen confidence- and security-building measures by revitalizing the Vienna Document 2011. Moving this process forward and including regional perspectives into the security dialogue with the focus on some areas including the Baltic Sea region, Central and Eastern Europe are the priorities of Poland’s Chairmanship of the FSC...
OSCE-implemented project on small arms and light weapons and conventional ammunition in Kyrgyzstan positively assessed
Publishing date: 13 April 2016
KOY-TASH, Kyrgyzstan, 13 April 2016 – A two-day donor assessment of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek’s ongoing programme on small arms and light weapons (SALW) and conventional ammunition (CA) concluded today in Koy-Tash village of Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE helps improve safety of movement for people and goods in conflict-affected areas of eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 7 April 2016
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine, 7 April 2016 – The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, at a ceremony in Sloviansk, Donetsk region today, presented representatives of the Infrastructure Ministry’s State Special Transport Service with 15 sets of protective equipment, including vests and helmets, which are to be delivered to local deminers working along transport routes in the east of the country...
OSCE Centre builds Kyrgyz army’s awareness on security and management of small arms and light weapons
Publishing date: 31 March 2016
BISHKEK, 31 March 2016 – A series of two consecutive one-week training courses co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek on the security and management of small arms and light weapons and stockpiles of conventional ammunition concluded in Bishkek today...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports armed forces to maintain security of small arms and light weapons in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 18 March 2016
BISHKEK, 18 March 2016 – Some 20 military personnel from the Northern Regional Command and the Southern Regional Command of the Kyrgyz Armed Forces completed an OSCE-supported one-week training-course on maintaining an electronic database system for the management, record-keeping and tracing of small arms and light weapons and stockpiles of conventional ammunition...
OSCE-supported training for Moldovan armed forces on the safe handling of ammunition
Publishing date: 11 March 2016
Some 18 officers of the Moldovan armed forces, as well as representatives of the Interior and Justice Ministries successfully completed a training course on the safe handling of ammunition stockpiles held at the Military Academy in Chisinau from 23 February to 11 March 2016...