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OSCE Centre supports forum to strengthen network of Kazakhstan's regional environmental groups
Publishing date: 17 September 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
KARAGANDA, 17 September 2008- An OSCE-supported forum aiming to strengthen contacts among regional environmental non-governmental organizations in Kazakhstan started today in the eastern city of Karaganda...
OSCE Secretary General visits Russia's North Ossetia
Publishing date: 17 August 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 18 August 2008- At the request of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut was in Vladikavkaz on Saturday and Sunday to meet refugees from South Ossetia and assess the humanitarian situation first-hand...
OSCE hosts Central Asia legal workshop to help boost fight against organized crime
Publishing date: 9 July 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
ALMATY, 9 July 2008- International legal experts joined 68 counterparts from Central Asia, Afghanistan and Ukraine today at an OSCE-hosted workshop focusing on confiscating criminal assets, combating money laundering...
Border management, economic development focus of OSCE meeting in Dushanbe
Publishing date: 25 February 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution
DUSHANBE, 25 February 2008- Developing a national border strategy and border security and management projects were among some of the topics discussed at an OSCE-Tajikistan Task Force meeting that took place in Dushanbe today...
OSCE conference to focus on helping governments combat sexual exploitation of children
Publishing date: 16 October 2007
Content type: Press release
VIENNA, 16 October 2007- Prevention, protection of victims and co-ordination of efforts to tackle commercial sexual exploitation of children is the focus of a two-day OSCE conference that starts Thursday in Vienna...
Intensifying OSCE and CSTO co-operation mutually beneficial, OSCE Secretary General says
Publishing date: 4 October 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control, Democratization, Conflict prevention and resolution
DUSHANBE, 4 October 2007- The OSCE is determined to continue its pragmatic co-operation with the Collective Security Treaty Organization to the benefit of both groups, OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut said in a message to the CSTO...
OSCE Mission supports Moldova to improve safe storage of stockpile ammunition, small arms
Publishing date: 24 September 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Forum for Security Co-operation, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution
CHISINAU, 24 September 2007- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova today called on the Moldovan authorities to improve storage conditions for stockpile ammunition and said the OSCE is ready to help...