Christine Muttonen delivers inaugural address at OSCE PA Tbilisi Annual Session, 5 July 2016 TBILISI, 5 July 2016 – At the close of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 25th Annual Session in Tbilisi today, members of the Assembly elected Austrian parliamentarian Christine Muttonen as President. Muttonen has previously served as OSCE PA Vice-President and Special Representative for Central and Eastern Asia, and is Deputy Head of the Austrian

Voting in plenary session, Tbilisi, 4 July 2016 (Photo courtesy of the Georgian Parliament) TBILISI, 5 July 2016 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted the 2016 Tbilisi Declaration today, addressing key issues in the fields of political affairs and security, economics, the environment, human rights, and humanitarian concerns. (Full text available here in English , French and Russian .) The Declaration, resulting from months of work by

Margareta Cederfelt, Marietta Tidei and Isabel Santos presenting reports and draft resolutions to the general committees in Tbilisi, 2 July 2016 TBILISI, 2 July 2016 – Nearly 300 parliamentarians from 54 OSCE countries have begun debates on political and security affairs, economic and environmental issues and human rights and humanitarian concerns at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 25th Annual Session in Tbilisi . The OSCE PA’s three general

Georgian Speaker of Parliament David Usupashvili gives opening address at OSCE PA's 25th Annual Session in Tbilisi, 1 July 2016 TBILISI, 1 July 2016 – With nearly 300 parliamentarians in attendance from 54 countries, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 25th Annual Session opened Friday with speeches by host officials including Georgian Speaker of Parliament David Usupashvili, President Giorgi Margvelashvili, and Prime Minister Giorgi

L-R: Secretary of Delegation Mary Gogoloadze, OSCE PA Deputy Secretary General Gustavo Pallares, Speaker of Georgian Parliament David Usupashvili, and OSCE PA Secretary General Roberto Montella, Tbilisi, Georgia, 30 June 2016 TBILISI, 30 June 2016 – Held under the theme “25 Years of Parliamentary Co-operation: Building Trust Through Dialogue,” the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2016 Annual Session will begin Friday in Tbilisi, Georgia, with

COPENHAGEN, 29 June 2016 – Following the suicide bombings yesterday at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, killing at least 36, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) issued the following statement: “I condemn in the strongest terms yesterday’s horrific suicide bombings at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul. This sort of indiscriminate violence against innocent civilians is absolutely unacceptable, and my deepest