News and press releases

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...

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...

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...

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...

BISHKEK, 31 May 2013- Developing the analytical skills of anti-terrorism personnel in Kyrgyzstan was the purpose of a one-week training course from that concluded today in Bishkek...

Recent terrorist attacks in the OSCE region show that terrorism and conditions that contribute to the spread of terrorism are likely to remain a key challenge for participating States, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said at an international security conference in Budapest on 29 May 2013...

The OSCE Mission to Skopje in co-operation with the Interior Ministry holds a specialized training course for police officers in Skopje from 27 to 31 May 2013 on collecting operational intelligence data on terrorism...