Arms control
Ann Linde, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, trying a mine detector used for work in areas contaminated with mines and explosive remnants of war, Dushanbe, 15 April 2021. (OSCE/Farhod Nabiyulloev) Photo details
In order to assist the Government of Tajikistan in improving the country’s arms control and stockpile management mechanisms, the Programme Office co-operates with designated agencies of Tajikistan in the following areas: improving the physical security of small arms and light weapons and conventional ammunition and stockpiles management measures, the implementation of the Ottawa Convention (on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction), as well as UN Security Council Resolution 1540 on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and means of their delivery. The Programme Office’s assistance in this area is multifold and target-oriented. The assistance includes technical support (security upgrade of infrastructure/provision of equipment), expert advice in updating relevant sections of legal frameworks, as well as improving national training capacities, with the overall aim of making the results sustainable in the future and ensuring national ownership.