Fostering Public-Private Partnerships in Combating the Financing of Terrorism On 8-10 December, the ATU organized in Sarajevo, with the support of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, a "Public-Private Expert Workshop for South Eastern Europe on Suppressing Terrorist Financing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism". The workshop brought together representatives from state authorities, civil society, media and businesses from South-Eastern Europe, providing a unique platform for public-private dialogue and exchange of experiences, lessons-learned and good practices for enhanced public-private co-operation in countering terrorism. The workshop built on previous OSCE efforts to promote public-private partnerships in countering terrorism in accordance with MC.DEC/5/07 and MC.DEC/10/08. A whole day focused on Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT), discussing public oversight and partnership with financial institutions, designated non-financial businesses and professions, as well as non-profit organizations, in line with international standards, in particular the recommendations from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental body aiming to develop and promote national and international policies to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Travel Document Security and Border Control As many criminal cross-border activities involve a travel document component, the ATU promotes international co-operation at all levels with regard to document security, document issuance and document inspection. In doing so, the ATU aims at providing and facilitating technical capacity-building assistance to the participating States. In 2010, assistance requests for travel document security increased and the ATU responded, in co-operation with ICAO, by providing 15 trainings, awareness raising workshops, study visits and technical assessments. Throughout 2010, the ATU in co-ordination with the INTERPOL General Secretariat and the Centre in Bishkek and the Office in Tajikistan, kept working on large scale assistance projects in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan respectively that provide the actual hardware, software, web services and training to connect to the INTERPOL and domestic databases at border control points. The ATU, together with ICAO and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, also responded to an assistance request made by Uzbekistan on travel document security. On 22-26 March, the ATU and the Centre in Ashgabat, in co-operation with the OS/Borders Team, co-organized a training on "Increasing Operational Awareness to Detect Forged Documents” for Turkmen border control officers in Turkmenistan’s Mary Province. The training included components delivered by INTERPOL on the use of its databases and I-24/7 network, as well as a separate lecture on combating trafficking in human beings. From 29 March to 2 April, a similar training was organized for Turkmen border control officers in Turkmenistan’s Lebar Province. On 28-29 April, the ATU in co-operation with INTERPOL and the OSCE Mission to Moldova co-organized a training on “Strengthening Database End-User Skills” for border control officials in Chisinau, Moldova. The training marked the official closing for an OSCE/INTERPOL technical assistance project in Moldova, which provided the hardware, software, web services and the requisite skills needed for border control and other first line law enforcement officers to connect in real-time to the INTERPOL databases for Stolen/Lost Travel Documents, Stolen Motor Vehicles, Wanted Individuals and Travel Document Associated with a Notice. 25