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Regional workshop on promoting border management and security, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Summary

A two-day regional workshop on promoting border management and security was held in Ashgabat on 7 and 8 May. The workshop brought together border security officials from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as experts from the OSCE and various UN agencies. A representative of the State Border Guard Committee of the Republic of Belarus addressed the role of non-technical means, such as the use of search dogs in the detection of drugs, explosives or counterfeit goods.