LYAUR, Tajikistan, 30 September 2016 – Two five-day courses on explosive ordnance disposal with the focus on defeating improvised explosive devices facilitated by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan concluded in Lyaur today. Thirty-five representatives of national armed forces as well as national mine...

More than 40 specialists from Afghanistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan completed a training seminar on advanced explosive ordnance disposal on April 20, 2016 in Dushanbe, organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan as a part of a multi-year project. The course, which covered levels...

Dushanbe, 30 March 2016.  A four-day seminar organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan on explosive hazards training management opened at the Office’s premises in Dushanbe on 29 March 2016. Eighteen training managers and instructors working in explosive hazards reduction and response at the national...

Tajikistan’s landmine legacy largely stems from Russian defenses to prevent border crossings by Afghan militants and narcotics traffickers. Landmines and UXO from the 1992–1997 civil war also impede the socioeconomic development of Tajikistan’s central Rasht Valley Region and limit access to valuable...