News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports trade facilitation in Central Asia and Afghanistan
Publishing date: 25 August 2015
A three-day workshop for participants from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan on trade facilitation instruments and challenges opened at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan on 24 August 2015...
OSCE organizes Regional Conference on Horticultural Trade in Tashkent
Publishing date: 24 August 2015
TASHKENT, 24 August 2015 – A two-day Regional Conference “On increasing potential of horticultural trade” jointly organised by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, USAID, Uzbek Ministry of Agriculture and the Farmers’ Council of Uzbekistan, started today in Tashkent...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports workshop for Eurasian Group on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism
Publishing date: 22 August 2015
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 22 August 2015 – A five-day workshop on harmonizing evaluation procedures of assessors from Eurasian Group (EAG) member states on combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism completed today in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan. The workshop was organized by the State Financial Intelligence Unit under the Government of Kyrgyzstan and EAG in co-operation with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek...
OSCE Border Management Staff College hosts World Customs Organization Train-the-Trainer course
Publishing date: 14 August 2015
DUSHANBE, 14 August 2015 – A ten-day comprehensive train-the-trainer course for sixteen instructors from customs training institutions in Central Asia, India and Pakistan concluded at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe today. The course was organized jointly by the College and the World Customs Organization’s (WCO) Programme Global Shield (PGS)...
OSCE training course in Turkmenistan addresses anti-drug trafficking operations
Publishing date: 30 July 2015
ASHGABAT, 30 July 2015 – Controlled delivery operations to combat drug trafficking were the focus of a week-long OSCE-organized training course for 22 representatives of Turkmenistan’s law-enforcement bodies, which ends in Ashgabat tomorrow...
OSCE supports dialogue efforts to enhance peaceful development of western Donbas, Ukraine
Publishing date: 30 July 2015
KRASNOARMIYSK, eastern Ukraine, 30 July 2015 – Over 170 representatives of central and local authorities, members of parliament, civic activists and experts gathered today in Krasnoarmiysk, eastern Ukraine, to discuss most burning issues of development for the western part of Donbas region, affected by recent hostilities...
OSCE conducts training seminar on integration of labour migrants in northern Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 July 2015
PETROPAVLOVSK, Northern Kazakhstan, 30 July 2015-- A one-day training seminar on the integration of labour migrants took place today in Petropavlovsk. Its aim was to review the legal and operational framework regulating the migrants’ access to the host country’s labour market and obligations of OSCE participating States related to labour migration...