News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre in Astana helps promote oil spills prevention, preparedness and response
Publishing date: 14 March 2013
Jeannette Kloetzer, the Deputy Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, spoke at a conference on industrial safety and oil spill prevention, preparedness and response in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 14 March 2013...
OSCE supports presentation of new investment concept for Tajikistan’s small hydropower sector
Publishing date: 27 February 2013
DUSHANBE, 27 February 2013 – The OSCE Office in Tajikistan today hosted a one-day seminar on small hydropower in Tajikistan...
OSCE in Moldova, Environment Ministry to remove pesticides from Transdniestria
Publishing date: 22 February 2013
CHISINAU, 22 February 2013 – A project to safely dispose of some 150 tonnes of obsolete pesticides stored in Transdniestria will start following the signing of an agreement between the OSCE Mission in Moldova and Environment Ministry today...
Reducing energy-related environmental footprint will further regional security, say OSCE meeting participants
Publishing date: 4 February 2013
VIENNA, 4 February 2013- Improving the environmental footprint of energy-related activities and discussing ways to renew and deepen the OSCE’s political commitments and engagement in promoting environmentally sustainable energy management are the focus of an OSCE meeting that started in Vienna today...
OSCE supports workshop on common water management, environmental challenges in Afghanistan and Tajikistan
Publishing date: 28 January 2013
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...
Next phase of OSCE project to remove toxic rocket fuel component from Ukraine starts
Publishing date: 21 December 2012
SHEVCHENKOVE, Ukraine, 21 December 2012- A train carrying 380 tonnes of a toxic rocket fuel component, which had been stored in deteriorating containers, left Ukraine today for Russia as part of a project supported by the OSCE...
OSCE Centre takes part in discussion on transboundary water management co-operation in Central Asia
Publishing date: 20 December 2012
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...