SARAJEVO, 1 October 2010 - The International Election Observation Mission for the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina will present its preliminary post-election statement at a news conference on Monday, 4 October, in Sarajevo. The mission is a joint undertaking of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

AL-JAZEERA 30 September 2010 Moldova's liberals beat opposition Communists in parliamentary election but results showed it lacked the majority needed to name a pro-Western president for Europe's poorest state. With all votes counted from Sunday's election, the third in the former Soviet republic in less than two years, the three-member liberal alliance had 52.1 per cent of the vote, the election commission said on Monday. The figure translated

The FINANCIAL 30 September 2010 The FINANCIAL – WARSAW. Formal preparations for the first OSCE Summit in 11 years began on Sptember 30 with representatives from OSCE participating States gathering in Warsaw to review how countries are fulfilling the commitments they have undertaken as part of the Organization." The 17-day Review Conference takes place through October and November in Warsaw, Vienna and Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, which

WARSAW, 30 September 2010 – Reviewing our commitments in the OSCE should be an integral part of the day-to-day work of the Organization and not just at such an exceptional event as this review conference, said the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Petros Efthymiou in his opening address today at the OSCE Review Conference in Warsaw. This review conference boils down to one single question, he said: "are our governments sticking to

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

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