COPENHAGHEN, 8 August 2012 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Riccardo Migliori has appointed Vice-President Tonino Picula (Croatia) to lead the Assembly's election observation mission to the parliamentary elections in Georgia on 1 October.
Picula, who served as the foreign minister of Croatia from 2004 to 2008, has extensive international election observation experience. He has previously led the OSCE election observation missions to Russia in 2012, Kazakhstan in 2011 and Moldova in 2010.