Forum for Security Co-operation assistance projects in pictures

A trained expert setting up to detonate a pile of shoulder-fired weapons known as MANPADS, or man-portable air defence systems, in Tajikistan, 21 June 2006. (OSCE)

The OSCE is assisting Ukraine in disposing of its large stockpiles of "melange", a decaying and highly toxic component of old Soviet rocket fuel, 14 July 2005. (OSCE)

OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (left) cuts the ribbon with Armenian Defence Minister Serge Sargsyan at the opening of a "melange" processing plant at Kaltakhchi, Lori province, 12 May 2006. (OSCE)

A "melange" processing plant in Armenia, 13 May 2006. The OSCE is helping the country recycle its stores of old rocket fuel component. (OSCE)

Disassembling an 85 mm shell at Kazarsenal at Kapchagai, Kazakhstan, 7 June 2005. (OSCE/Yurii Kryvonos)

OSCE expert Yurii Kryvonos shows a shoulder fired "Strela-IIM" anti-aircraft missile to international observers before it is destroyed near Sluck, Belarus, 25 May 2005. This was part of OSCE efforts to eliminate surplus small arms and light weapons. (OSCE)

A shoulder fired "Strela-IIM" anti-aircraft missile before destruction near the city of Sluck, Belarus, 25 May 2005, part of OSCE efforts to eliminate surplus small arms and light weapons. (OSCE)

Mortar shells in a storage facility in Tajikistan, 2004. The OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation helps destroy stockpiles of deteriorating surplus conventional weapons and munitions left over from the Cold War era. (OSCE)