29 September 2010
COPENHAGEN, 29 September 2010 – Over 200 OSCE Parliamentarians from 50 OSCE countries are expected to participate in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ninth Fall Meetings taking place Palermo, Sicily, from 8-11 October 2010. The previous Fall Meetings were held in Athens, Greece. Hosted by the Sicilian Regional Assembly, the Fall Meetings include meetings of the Assembly’s Mediterranean Forum and Standing Committee and a Conference on “The
23 September 2010
COPENHAGEN, 23 September 2010 – Serhiy Shevchuk, Rapporteur of the OSCE PA’s General Committee on Economic Affairs, Environment, Science and Technology, spoke at the OSCE Special Experts Meeting on assessing the OSCE’s future contribution to International Energy Security Co-operation, held in Vilnius, Lithuania 13-14 September. Co-organized by the Kazakh OSCE Chairmanship, the incoming Lithuanian Chairmanship and the Office of the Co-ordinator
NEWS.AZ 17 September 2010 'The initiative to appoint UN special representative on Nagorno Karabakh problem should be welcomed. If even this initiative doesn't replace the OSCE Minsk Group, at least it can have an effect on the Group's activity', Vice-Speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament, head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Bahar Muradova told the website of New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) speaking about the former
08 September 2010
Deputy Secretary General Tina Schoen and the Chair of the Transparency Committee, Johannes Koskinen, meeting in Vienna. VIENNA, 8 September 2010 – Members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on Transparency and Accountability met in Vienna on 6 September with the Chairman of the Permanent Council, the ten ambassadorial Co-ordinators of the Corfu Process and the OSCE Secretary General. The aim of the visit was to explore the
23 August 2010
COPENHAGEN, 23 August 2010 – The International Secretariat of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has started to plan for a busy fall of election observations missions to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, the United States and Azerbaijan. To lead the OSCE short-term observers to these elections and to deliver the post-election statement on behalf of the OSCE, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan’s Secretary of State and Minister of Foreign
28 July 2010
Kimmo Kiljunen introducing a resolution on the situation in Kyrgyzstan at the OSCE PA’s recent Annual Session in Oslo. COPENHAGEN, 28 July 2010 – Having just returned from Bishkek, the OSCE PA’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland), spoke today about the progress being made in organizing an International Independent Commission for Inquiry into the violence that occurred in southern Kyrgyzstan in June. “I am
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