COPENHAGEN, 21 April 2010 – The air traffic problems over Europe have negatively affected various recent activities of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and its Members. Over the past weekend, the Assembly’s regular Bureau Meeting, which was to be held on 19 April in Copenhagen, was cancelled as very few Bureau Members were able to travel to Copenhagen as a result of the continuing air traffic problems.

TREND NEWS AGENCY 17 April 2010 Baku / Trend , A.Huseynbala/ Vice Speaker of Azerbaijan Parliament, head of the Azerbaijani delegation to OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Bahar Muradova met in Baku with the head of the Italian delegation to the organization Riccardo Migliori . "Deputy chairperson of the Parliament talked about the history of friendly ties between the two peoples, the similarity of culture, and said that through the efforts of two

AZERI PRESS AGENCY 17 April 2010 Baku - APA. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received the participants of an international conference "2010 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan: more democratic, more transparent", APA reports quoting "AzerTac" news agency. The Head of State expressed confidence that talks and meetings held during the visit of European parliament's members would contribute to developing relations between

OSCE PA Special Envoy Adil Akhmetov, Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Zhanybek Karibzhanov, and the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy, Jan Kubis at a meeting in Bishkek, 10 April 2010 (OSCE/Malik Alymkulov) Following last week’s turmoil, Adil Akhmetov, a member of the Kazakh delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, was appointed Special Envoy to Kyrgyzstan by the Assembly’s President Joao Soares on 9 April and traveled

COPENHAGEN, 9 April 2010 -- Adil Akhmetov, a member of the Kazakh delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, has been appointed a Special Envoy to Kyrgyzstan by President João Soares. Mr. Akhmetov will arrive in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek Saturday morning, 10 April, and will make contact with relevant interlocutors to discuss possible contributions by the Parliamentary Assembly to help stabilize the situation in the country. President

COPENHAGEN, 8 April 2010 – The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Joao Soares, today expressed his deep concern for those killed and injured in clashes in recent days in Kyrgyzstan and urged all parties to exercise restraint and to seek a peaceful solution. “It is absolutely unacceptable that political leaders, including former Members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, have been subject to imprisonment or violence,” Mr. Soares