4.12 Programme Office in Dushanbe From left to right: Tuula Yrjölä, Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe; Umarzoda Ikrom, Deputy Interior Minister of Tajikistan; and Rasa Ostrauskaite, OSCE Coordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats, speaking at the OSCE regional meeting of Heads of Law From 19 to 21 November, the Office, in close co-operation with TNTD/ATU and UNODC, organized a three-day foundation course in Dushanbe on suppressing the financing of terrorism, bringing together 20 representatives from the Prosecution Office, the Financial Monitoring Department under the National Bank of Tajikistan (FMD/NBT), the MoI and the SNSC. Three international experts from UNODC, the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring of the Russian Federation (ROSFINMONITORING) and from the Western Union taught the trainees how to effectively detect and interdict money flows to terrorists through money wiring systems, including through "Hawala" (a traditional system of transferring money used in Arab countries and South Asia). They also introduced them to international, national and regional threats in this field. As part of this capacity-building course, the Office purchased and donated office equipment (computers, tables and chairs, electronic board, projector and project screen) to the FMD/NBT to support the Department’s efforts in establishing a National Training Centre on AML/ CFT. Enforcement Departments in Central Asia. Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 24 July 2018 (OSCE/Farhod Nabiyulloev) representatives of the MoI, Tajikistan’s Drug Control Agency (DCA) and the State National Security Committee (SNSC), gave a joint presentation on countering illicit drugs, received with due attention by the conference participants. Programme Office in Dushanbe – Police-Related Activities in 2018 9 Training Total 28 19 Information Exchange / Institution and Capacity-Building ACTIVITIES ON: General Police Development and Reform 89% Threats posed by Criminal Activity 11% 126