Activities of the Transnational Threats Department • From 23 to 25 June, a ToT course was held in Vienna; • From 22 to 28 July, the basic module (Foundation and Analysis) was successfully organized for 20 Kyrgyz officials from the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), law enforcement, intelligence service, and prosecutor’s office; • Further events under this project included additional three-day ToT courses to strengthen the capacity of government officials from Kyrgyzstan (16-18 September and 25-27 November) and Kazakhstan (5-7 December); • The training programme included another seven-day module (Investigation) for 19 Kyrgyz officials from the FIU, law enforcement, intelligence and prosecutor’s office and a six-day training course for 16 government officials from Kyrgyzstan on 10 to 15 December (Financial Disruption and Sanctions). TNTD/ATU was supported by the OSCE Programme Offices in Astana and Bishkek respectively. In 2017, TNTD/ATU organized two seminars on Rule of Law compliant Criminal Justice Responses to Terrorism, in close co-operation with the OSCE Mission in Kosovo (5-6 July) and the OSCE Programme Office in Astana (4-5 October). The seminars assembled practitioners from relevant ministries, the judiciary, law enforcement, and prison management, and focused on good practices listed in the Global Counterterrorism Forum’s Rabat Memorandum. Experts presented the legal parameters and practices developed by participating States, as well as the private financial sector. Participants discussed in particular the co-ordination among domestic government agencies and the importance of international cooperation, especially when being confronted with terrorism. From 21 to 24 November, in line with the aforementioned renewed focus on countering terrorist financing, TNTD/ATU participated in the 27th Plenary Meeting of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism organized in Moscow. The event was attended by delegations of the EAG member states and countries with an observer status, as well as a number of international organizations. 2.4 TNTD/Border Security and Management Unit Introduction The OSCE Secretariat, through the Border Security and Management Unit of the Transnational Threats Department (TNTD/BSMU), supports and assists the OSCE Chairmanship, executive structures, field operations and Institutions in their efforts to promote open and secure borders as elaborated in the OSCE Border Security and Management Concept (BSMC) (MC.DOC/2/05) adopted in Ljubljana in December 2005. In 2017, the OSCE Border Security and Management National Focal Points (BSM NFP) Network, along with training and capacity development activities, contributed to the exchange of information and co-operation between border security and management services of participating States and Partners for Co-operation. TNTD/BSMU interactions with a number of international and regional actors and OSCE field operations also contributed to dialogue and co-operation between participating States and Partners for Co-operation in the Mediterranean region. Activities Related to Threats Posed by Criminal Activity Cross-Border Co-operation in Criminal Matters In 2017, in order to better address the cross-border movement of FTFs, TNTD/BSMU organized three deployment missions of the newly established OSCE Mobile Training Team delivering specialized on-site training to border security and management officials to better identify and interview potential FTFs, in full compliance with international human rights standards at entry and exit border check points of participating States. During these on-site training sessions, over 80 border officials from airports in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Uzbekistan and Ukraine received useful training in a wide range of subjects which included 29