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OSCE-UNODC conference calls for better information sharing on border management

Publishing date: 9 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Border management, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 9 September 2004- Experts from 16 international organizations attending a conference on promoting more effective border management and security called for an increase in information sharing to address challenges of "open but safe borders". On

OSCE experts help Tajikistan secure surplus small arms and light weapons and ammunition

Publishing date: 24 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
DUSHANBE, 24 August 2004- At the request of the Government of Tajikistan, a group of OSCE experts, assisted by a Russian, have been visiting Dushanbe from 19 to 24 August to conduct a study on the situation regarding surplus Small Arms...

OSCE Chairman urges demilitarisation of Georgian-Ossetian conflict

Publishing date: 20 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SOFIA, 20 August 2004- OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy expressed concern over recent developments in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in messages to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity. In a

OSCE Skopje Mission and Italian Embassy assist Border Police modernisation

Publishing date: 10 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SKOPJE, 10 August 2004- Over 60,000 Euros worth of computer equipment for the Border Police has been handed over to the Interior Ministry in Skopje today. The equipment will enable border police offices in the south and the east of the country to...

OSCE Skopje Mission helps keep borders open but safe

Publishing date: 6 August 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SKOPJE, 6 August 2004- A second generation of 279 Border Police Officers graduated today from the Idrizovo Police Academy, which is supported by the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. As former members of the Defence Ministry's Border Brigade...

OSCE Chairman-in-Office deeply concerned over deterioration of situation in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict

Publishing date: 30 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SOFIA, 30 July 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Solomon Passy, expressed his deep concern with the further deterioration of the situation in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict during the last 48 hours...

OSCE announces that confidence- and security-building agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina will end in September 2004

Publishing date: 24 June 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 23 June 2004- The Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO for Articles II and IV, General Claudio Zappulla, announced today that the Agreement on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in Bosnia and Herzegovina will end in September...