TRAINING ON “GOOD PRACTICES IN BORDER SECURITY AND MANAGEMENT TO STRENGTHEN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CAPACITIES IN COUNTERING TERRORISM”
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan
Senior government officials responsible for border security and management, counter-terrorism, and intelligence matters, of all Central Asian states, Afghanistan and Mongolia met in Dushanbe on 6-8 August to enhance understanding and knowledge of good practices for effective border security and management as a means of countering terrorism in the region. The three-day training workshop was jointly organized by the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia and the UN Counter-Terrorism Centre within the Office of Counter-Terrorism. Experts from a number of UN entities and regional organizations shared their knowledge and experience with the participants.
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The training workshop covered such topics as threats and challenges to border security and management, integrated border management, cross-border and interagency cooperation, human rights at international borders as well as screening and profiling at borders.
This training was conducted as part of the Third Phase of the UNRCCA/UNOCT project titled “Towards a Comprehensive Implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Central Asia”, which was launched at the High-Level Meeting on 30 April 2018 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.