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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...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan’s State Registration Service promote international standards in the production of travel documents
Publishing date: 23 October 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management
BISHKEK, 23 October 2012 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek presented information brochures on requirements for passport photographs to Kyrgyzstan’s State Registration Service today...
Senior border officials from 12 countries start course at OSCE Border Management Staff College
Publishing date: 1 October 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 1 October 2012 – The opening ceremony for the sixth staff course for senior border officials from 12 countries was held at the OSCE Border Management Staff College today...