News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE consults with Montenegrin authorities on next steps in establishing an Advance Passenger Information system
Publishing date: 8 March 2018
How to set up a national Advance Passenger Information (API) system to detect and deter the movement of foreign terrorist fighters was the focus of a four-day consultation between the OSCE and relevant Montenegrin authorities, which concluded in Podgorica on 8 March 2018...
OSCE trains border guards on travel document security in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 23 February 2018
A five-day OSCE-supported training seminar on the detection of forged travel documents and identification techniques for 26 border guards concluded in Shymkent, Kazakhstan on 23 February 2018...
OSCE-organized workshop on establishing Advance Passenger Information system concludes in Prishtinë/Priština
Publishing date: 22 February 2018
A two-day workshop on how to establish an Advance Passenger Information (API) system for preventing the movement of foreign terrorist fighters and enhancing aviation security concluded on 22 February 2018 in Prishtinë/Priština. Representatives from all Kosovo agencies involved in passenger processing – 45 in total – as well as police and customs officials and members of the civil aviation authority, the Data Protection Agency and the Internal Affairs Ministry took part...
Tajikistan’s Interior Minister addresses the OSCE Security Committee in Vienna
Publishing date: 14 February 2018
The Interior Minister of Tajikistan, Colonel General Rahimzoda Ramazon Hamro, addressed the OSCE participating States in the Hofburg Conference Centre, Vienna, on 12 February 2018. Interior Minister Rahimzoda was invited by the Secretary General Thomas Greminger and the Spanish Chair of the Security Committee, Ambassador Victoria Gonzalez Roman, to open this year’s first session of the Security Committee.
OSCE Mission donates specialized first aid kits to Kosovo Police
Publishing date: 6 February 2018
The OSCE Mission in Kosovo donated 30 specialized first aid kits to special operations units and rapid reaction units of the Kosovo Police on 6 February 2018...
Law enforcement trainers from Afghanistan increase their expertise in combating illicit drugs in OSCE-organized course
Publishing date: 5 February 2018
Afghan law enforcement officers completed on 5 February 2018 an OSCE-organized two-week train-the-trainer course on combating illicit drug trafficking and drug-related crime, at the Russian training facility in Domodedovo, near Moscow...
OSCE and UNODC sign new 2018-2019 joint action plan
Publishing date: 31 January 2018
VIENNA, 31 January 2018 – A plan for joint action by the OSCE and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the period 2018-2019 was signed by OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger and UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov today at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna.