OSCE Office helps Afghan and Tajik border guard learn from Lithuanian counterparts

Training for six Tajik and five Afghan border guard officials started on 14 November at the Border Guard School Medininkai in Lithuania. During the one-week study visit, the participants will learn about border management and security theory and practice in Lithuania.

Ambassador Rytis Paulauskas, the Head of the Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship Task Force, welcoming the participants, said that initiative was developed in follow up to the meeting of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, with the border guard officials at the Nizhny Pyanj/Shir Khan Bandar crossing point at the Tajik-Afghan Border.

Paulauskas also hoped that such training events could be continued in the future in the framework of the new package of OSCE projects for Afghanistan, which has been recently drafted at the initiative of the Lithuanian Chairmanship.

The study visit, financed by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, is part of the Office’s border management projects involving Afghan participants.