News and press releases

DUSHANBE, 28 January 2013 – The OSCE Office in Tajikistan, in co-operation with the Ministry of Water Management and Land Reclamation of Tajikistan, organized today a one-day workshop on common water management and environmental challenges in Afghanistan and Tajikistan...

Representatives of the OSCE Centre in Astana joined some forty Central Asian water authority officials, non-governmental organization representatives and independent experts on 20 December 2012 in Almaty, Kazakhstan to discuss the introduction of integrated water resource management principles into the administration of three small transboundary rivers: the Aspar, the Isfara and the Ugam flowing through all Central Asian countries...

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan held a conference in Tashkent on 3 December 2012 where parliamentarians, representatives of ministries, scientists and farmers discussed a new law drafted by a group of specialists and Uzbek parliamentarians aimed at establishing agricultural co-operatives...

ASTANA, 4 December 2012 – A three-day training course for government officials from Kazakhstan on international mechanisms and tools to combat money laundering and terrorism financing started in Astana today...

Three workshops on the establishment and work of local and regional transparency and sustainable development expert councils (TSDECs) along the Western Europe – Western China international road construction corridor were held the week of 12 November 2012 in Taraz, Shymkent and Kyzylorda, southern Kazakhstan...

KARAGANDY, Kazakhstan, 14 November 2012 – The introduction of migration management into the curriculum at specialized educational institutions is the subject of a train-the-trainers event which started in Karagandy in central Kazakhstan today...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 9 November 2012 – Sharing experience and best practices in integrated water resource management in Central Asia is the focus of an OSCE-supported seminar which began in Almaty today...