Tajik border officers enhance their operation planning capacity at OSCE-supported training

Twenty-five border officers of Tajikistan’s Border Troops enhanced their capacities on operation planning training course conducted by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe from 14 April to 3 May 2022 in Hamadoni district.

The topics of the training sessions focused on decision-making, operational planning, risk assessment, gender awareness and topography map reading.

At the closing ceremony of the training, Ambassador Vuk Zugic, Acting Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe said: “The OSCE’s project on the stabilization of Tajikistan’s southern borders with Afghanistan is one of the most important projects implemented by our Office. It helps Tajikistan to strengthen border security and management and emanate threats coming from outside the state borders.”

Colonel Khusvakhtov Kishvarsho, Deputy Commander of the Border Troops noted that the co-operation between the OSCE and Border Troops since 2008 has brought many positive results and building on the capacity of Tajikistan border troops is more than ever essential considering the current situation at the border with Afghanistan.

This training course is part of a project funded through the  EU Neighbourhood Development and International Cooperation Instrument. The project aims to increase the professional capacity of both Tajikistan’s Border Troops and Afghan Border Services to better tackle illicit activities in border areas. The project also aims to strengthen the capacity of the Committee on Emergency Situations and Civil Defense to respond to natural disasters in border regions.