2000

President Severin holds talks in Vienna, addresses Permanent Council and meets OSCE Chairperson-in-Office
Chair of the State Duma represents OSCE PA in New York
Vice-President Ihor Ostash moderates Round Table on Elections in Kazakhstan
Vice-President Rita Süssmuth visits Kosovo
President Severin addresses Parliamentary Stability Pact Summit in Zagreb.......
.....................and Seminar in Italy
Vice Chair of the First Committee visits International Secretariat in Copenhagen
New Research Fellows

August 2000

19 June 2000

On 19-21 June Mr. Adrian Severin (Romania), Chair of the ad hoc Working Group on Belarus, will visit Minsk to meet with the President of the Republic
On 19 June, President Helle Degn will deliver a statement at the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Trafficking in Human Beings
Mr. András Bársony (Hungary), Rapporteur of the First General Committee, will represent the OSCE PA at the Rose-Roth Seminar
On 6 June Secretary General Spencer Oliver met in Brussels with the Secretary General of the European Parliament, Mr. Julian Priestly
In connection with the preparations for the 2001 Annual Session in Paris , Mr. R. Spencer Oliver, Secretary General, and Mr. Vitaly Evseyev, Deputy Secretary General, visited France from 7-9 June
The OSCE Parliamentary Team on Moldova visited Moldova for the second time on 8-9 June 2000
On 13 June Mr. Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland), Chair of the Assembly´s General Committee on Political Affairs and Security, represented the OSCE PA at the Fifteenth Plenary Assembly of the IPA CIS in St. Petersburg

30 May 2000

From 23-24 May the Chair of the Parliamentary Team on Moldova, Mr. Kimmo Kiljunen and Team Member Mrs. Tone Tingsgard visited Moscow
From 29 May to 2 June 2000, President Degn is visiting Russia and Azerbaijan
Mr. Jan Jooren, Counsellor for Press and Public Affairs of the International Secretariat attended the third Public Affairs Roundtable on 17 to 19 May 2000 in Vienna
Deputy Secretary General Vitaly Evseyev visited Cyprus from 22 to 25 May
On 15 to 17 May, in preparation for the Annual Session, Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Vitaly Evseyev, Press Counsellor, Mr. Jan Jooren and General Services Officer, Mr. Kurt Andersen visited Bucharest
On 1 June, the Chairman of the ad hoc Working Group on Belarus, Mr. Adrian Severin, will visit Moscow
As of 1 June Mr. Paul LeGendre will join the International Secretariat
9th Annual Session: The Secretariat has sent copies of the Draft Resolution of the three General Committees in all languages to Heads and Secretaries of Delegations

12 May 2000

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has awarded the 2000 OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy to the Russian reporter Andrei Babitsky
More than 80 parliamentarians from 32 OSCE countries participated in the Democratic Development Seminar in Antalya entitled “New risks and challenges: Minorities in the 21st Century” from 12 to 13 April 2000
During the meeting of the Expanded Bureau on 10 and 11 April 2000 in Antalya, members considered the draft reports and resolutions
The Assembly´s ad hoc Committee on Election Monitoring also met in Antalya
On 23 to 29 April 2000, OSCE PA President Mrs. Helle Degn paid an official visit to Georgia and Armenia
On 4 May Mrs. Degn addressed the Permanent Council of the OSCE
President Helle Degn also addressed the Conference of Speakers and Presidents of National Parliaments and European Parliamentary Assemblies in Strasbourg from 5-6 May 2000
Vice President Tana de Zulueta will represent the OSCE PA at the General Assembly of PABSEC
President Helle Degn has been appointed by the Chairperson-in-Office, Austrian Foreign Minister Ms. Benita Ferrero-Waldner to represent the OSCE as a whole at a special session of the UN General Assembly in New York from 5 to 9 June
Deputy Secretary General Pentti Väänänen attended the “Technical Conference on International Election Observation in Belarus in 2000” in Vienna on 7 April

23 March 2000

Presidential Elections in Russia on 26 March
OSCE Permanent Council meetings in Vienna on 10 and 24 February
Vice-President Ihor Ostash (Ukraine) visited Kazakhstan to discuss the follow-up to the OSCE/ODIHR Final Report on the Parliamentary Elections
President Degn’s visit to Romania 21-23 February
The Parliamentary Team on Moldova visited the country for the first time between 29 February
and 3 March 2000
Parliamentary Troika visit to Belarus on 2–3 March
the Chair of the ad hoc Working Group on Belarus, Mr. Adrian Severin, testified before a US Congressional Helsinki Commission hearing on recent developments in Belarus
OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy
President Helle Degn visited Japan, a Partner for Co-operation, on 5 March
President Degn will visit Georgia and Armenia at the end of April
Ms. Ritt Bjerregaard, a former Vice-President of the Assembly and EU Commissioner for the Environment, has been appointed Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries in the Danish Government

16 February 2000

Seminar on Strengthening Parliamentary Defence Committees in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Democracy Team on Moldova
Parliamentary Troika on Belaru
Follow up Mission on the Kazakh elections
Parliamentary Elections in Kyrgyzstan on 20 February 2000
President Degn's official visit to Romania from 21-23 February 2000
Presidential Election of the Russian Federation on 26 March 2000
New Research Fellows join the International Secretariat

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