Pia Christmas-Moeller at a press conference in Washington, DC, November 2008. COPENHAGEN, 1 February 2010 – OSCE PA President Joao Soares has appointed Danish parliamentarian and Assembly Vice-President Pia Christmas-Moeller to lead the PA’s election observation mission to the parliamentary elections in Tajikistan on 28 February 2010. Ms. Christmas-Moeller has headed several election observation missions in the past, including the former

COPENHAGEN, 1 February 2010 – Around 60 members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will arrive in Ukraine this week to observe the second round of the Ukraine presidential election on Sunday, 7 February. The observers will be deployed all over Ukraine. As in the first election round on 17 January, the Assembly’s President, Joao Soares (Portugal), will lead the OSCE PA delegation. He will also serve again as the OSCE Special Co-ordinator,

APA 23 January 2010 Baku. Victoria Dementyeva – APA. A high-level delegation from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), led by President Joao Soares and the Special Representative on Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia, President Emeritus Goran Lennmarker, will visit the South Caucasus next month, Director of Communications of the OSCE PA Klas Bergman told APA. The visit will take place from 9 to 16 March. It will begin in Georgia, 9 and 10

CHISINAU, 20 January 2010 -- The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Parliamentary Team on Moldova paid a visit to Chisinau and Tiraspol 18-20 January 2010. The Delegation, which included Canan Kalsin (Turkey), was led by Walburga Habsburg Douglas (Sweden). The Delegation met with the Speaker of Parliament and Acting President of Moldova, Mihai Ghimpu, the Prime Minister Vlad Filat, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Iurie Leanca, the newly appointed

MOLDPRES 19 January 2010 "The OSCE backs the new positive measures taken by the Moldovan authorities to peacefully solve the Transnistrian conflict. We back the actions carried out in the interest of citizens both publicly and via the OSCE reports." The statements were made by representatives of the group for Moldova of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, headed by Swedish MP Walburga Habsburg Douglas, at a meeting with Moldovan Parliament Speaker

Коммерсантъ Украина 19 January 2010 Международные наблюдатели положительно оценили ход первого тура выборов президента Крупнейшие миссии иностранных наблюдателей, аккредитованные в Украине, вчера заявили о соответствии первого тура президентских выборов демократическим стандартам. Наблюдатели признали, что на участках регистрировались нарушения — от голосования без документов до попыток подкупа — но все они не были системными и не повлияли на