COPENHAGEN, 16 July 2016 – In response to Friday night's attempted coup in Turkey, OSCE PA President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) today issued the following statement: "I have been following the situation in Turkey with great concern. I call for calm and restraint, and condemn in the strongest terms any attempts by parts of the military to overthrow the democratically elected government of Turkey by means of force. It is of utmost

Version française ci-dessous COPENHAGEN, 15 July 2016 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) issued the following statement in response to an apparent terrorist attack that killed at least 84 people in Nice, France, Thursday night. "I strongly condemn the terrible attack in Nice, France, which killed and wounded dozens of innocent civilians, including children. On behalf of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, I

Christine Muttonen delivers inaugural address at OSCE PA Tbilisi Annual Session, 5 July 2016 TBILISI, 5 July 2016 – At the close of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 25th Annual Session in Tbilisi today, members of the Assembly elected Austrian parliamentarian Christine Muttonen as President. Muttonen has previously served as OSCE PA Vice-President and Special Representative for Central and Eastern Asia, and is Deputy Head of the Austrian

Voting in plenary session, Tbilisi, 4 July 2016 (Photo courtesy of the Georgian Parliament) TBILISI, 5 July 2016 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted the 2016 Tbilisi Declaration today, addressing key issues in the fields of political affairs and security, economics, the environment, human rights, and humanitarian concerns. (Full text available here in English , French and Russian .) The Declaration, resulting from months of work by

Margareta Cederfelt, Marietta Tidei and Isabel Santos presenting reports and draft resolutions to the general committees in Tbilisi, 2 July 2016 TBILISI, 2 July 2016 – Nearly 300 parliamentarians from 54 OSCE countries have begun debates on political and security affairs, economic and environmental issues and human rights and humanitarian concerns at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 25th Annual Session in Tbilisi . The OSCE PA’s three general

Georgian Speaker of Parliament David Usupashvili gives opening address at OSCE PA's 25th Annual Session in Tbilisi, 1 July 2016 TBILISI, 1 July 2016 – With nearly 300 parliamentarians in attendance from 54 countries, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 25th Annual Session opened Friday with speeches by host officials including Georgian Speaker of Parliament David Usupashvili, President Giorgi Margvelashvili, and Prime Minister Giorgi