18 July 2010
XINHUA 18 July 2010 President of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly Petros Efthymiou said on Saturday that states over the world should actively adapt to global changes. Efthymiou made the remarks at the Plenary of the OSCE Foreign Ministers Informal Meeting held in the suburb of Almaty the same day. As Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev made clear in his speech at the meeting that
17 July 2010
RFE/RL 16-07-10 The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has said it would send a 52-member police force to southern Kyrgyzstan. Herbert Salber, director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Center, told reporters on July 16 the pan-European security bloc and Kyrgyzstan have agreed to dispatch the group to the regions of Osh and Jalal-Abad.
INTERFAX (BBC MONITORING) 16 July 2010 Bishkek, 16 July -- The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's special representative for Central Asia, Kimmo Kiljunen, will lead an international investigation into the events that took place in the Kyrgyz south on 10-14 June, the Kyrgyz government's press service has told Interfax today. According to the press service, the proposal to set up an international commission for investigating the causes of the events
10 July 2010
Petros Efthymiou, the newly elected OSCE PA President, addresses the Assembly on 10 July. OSLO, 10 July 2010 – The 19 th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly ended today with the adoption of the Oslo Declaration and the election of Petros Efthymiou (Greece) as the Assembly’s new President. Mr. Efthymiou, who was a Vice-President in the Assembly, defeated Senator Consiglio Di Nino (Canada) by 130 votes to 64. The new President
Johannes Koskinen, Chair of the OSCE PA's Transparency and Accountability Committee, introduces the resolution on strengthening the role of the Parliamentary Assembly in the Corfu Process. OSLO, 10 July 2010 -- One of the major resolutions debated at the Oslo Annual Session, introduced in a plenary by the Chair of the OSCE PA’s Transparency and Accountability Committee, Johannes Koskinen (Finland), welcomes the OSCE Corfu Process, which seeks
08 July 2010
OSCE PA President Joao Soares opens the 19th Annual Session in Oslo (Photo by Klas Bergman, OSCE PA) OSLO, 8 July 2010 – The 19 th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) continued on its third day today with extensive debates and deliberations on three Committee reports on the conference theme, “Rule of Law: Combating Transnational Crime and Corruption,” and draft resolutions on issues ranging from migration, cyber crime,
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