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Regional explosive ordnance disposal course for specialists from Tajikistan and Afghanistan completed with OSCE support
Publishing date: 26 September 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
DUSHANBE, 26 September 2014 – A ten-day regional Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) course level 1, facilitated by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan concluded in Dushanbe today...
First explosive ordnance disposal course in Central Asia completed with OSCE support
Publishing date: 6 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
First explosive ordnance disposal course in Central Asia completed with OSCE support...
More than a thousand small arms units destroyed in Tajikistan with OSCE help
Publishing date: 8 January 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
DUSHANBE, 8 January 2014- The OSCE Office in Tajikistan today began overseeing the destruction of more than a thousand of small arms and light weapons units, including firearms collected from the local population and arms found in caches across various regions of Tajikistan.
OSCE Office in Tajikistan boosts cross-border dialogue on mine action
Publishing date: 19 February 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
DUSHANBE, 19 February 2013 – A three-day regional workshop on “National Mine Action Standards” started in Dushanbe today with the support of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan helps destroy more than 600 small arms and light weapons
Publishing date: 13 September 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control
DUSHANBE, 13 September 2012 – The OSCE Office observes and supports an operation to destroy small arms and light weapons which started in Dushanbe today...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan supports de-mining efforts
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Arms control, Border management
DUSHANBE, 19 April 2012- As part of a humanitarian de-mining project supported by the OSCE, a mechanical de-mining machine was handed over to the Tajikistan’s Ministry of Defence today at a ceremony in the Engineering Battalion base in Rudaki District, close to Dushanbe...
OSCE trains Afghan border police on detecting forged documents
Publishing date: 27 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 27 September 2010- A two-week training course for 20 Afghan border police officials to increase operational awareness to detect forged documents and use Interpol databases started today at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe...