COPENHAGEN, 7 February 2011 – The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) today announced Neil Simon as the Assembly's Director of Communications. Mr. Simon brings more than a decade of journalism and public affairs experience to the organization having most recently served as the Communications Director for the U.S. Helsinki Commission based in Washington. He has been a part of several OSCE PA

COPENHAGEN, 3 February 2011 – Kimmo Kiljunen, the OSCE PA's Special Representative for Central Asia, said last week that the International Independent Commission for Inquiry into the June interethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan has completed its field work. Having led this Commission since October, Kiljunen said that its work is based on over 700 interviews and statements by victims and witnesses. The final report is expected to be

Копенгаген, 28 января 2011 года – Выражая глубокую скорбь в связи с гибелью людей в результате взрыва в московском аэропорту «Домодедово», председатель ПА ОБСЕ Петрос Эфтимиу решительно осудил явно террористическую атаку, совершенную в понедельник. «Ничто не может оправдать бессмысленное убийство, имевшее место сегодня в Москве. Виновники этого террористического нападения являются преступниками, и с ними необходимо поступать подобным же

RFE/RL 28 January 2011 BISHKEK -- The chairman of the international commission investigating last year's deadly ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan says his group's report will be issued in March, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. Chairman Kimmo Kiljunen, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's special representative for Central Asia, said on January 27 that the commission talked to about 400 locals in the Osh and Jalal-Abad regions during its

24.KG 27 January 2011 Independent International Commission for the Comprehensive Examination into the Tragic Events in Southern Kyrgyzstan finished its on-site research, said Kimmo Kiljunen, special representative of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Central Asia, presenting its preliminary report. “It is a great tragedy, it is hard to underestimate it," he said. “It is important to provide thorough investigation. Several commissions studied

COPENHAGEN, 25 January 2011 - The President of the OSCE PA Mr. Petros Efthymiou today issued the following statement: “We express our deep concern for recent violent acts in Albania, which resulted in the loss of human lives and in several injuries. We call on the Albanian Government, the political parties and all political forces of the country to preserve constitutional stability, as well as to exercise maturity and restraint, in order to