WASHINGTON, 28 April 2015 – U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism and Intolerance, met with local leaders and government officials in Paris and Copenhagen over the weekend as follow-up to the violent attacks that took place in both cities earlier this year – the siege at a Kosher Market following the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the shooting at a free speech event at

COPENHAGEN, 27 April 2015 – A military advance by illegal separatists in Ukraine on the city of Mariupol could have "disastrous consequences" for efforts to achieve a diplomatic solution to the crisis in the country, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) said today following a meeting of the Assembly's Bureau in the Danish Parliament. "I am gravely concerned by the reports from OSCE monitors of a sharp escalation of

COPENHAGEN, 27 April 2015 – The Bureau of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, composed of the Assembly’s elected leadership from nearly 20 OSCE participating States, met today in the Danish capital to discuss recent work, initiatives in progress and plans for the future. In opening the meeting, PA President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) discussed the Assembly’s upcoming Annual Session in Helsinki, the ongoing Helsinki +40 seminar project and

COPENHAGEN, 20 April 2015 – OSCE parliamentarians will conduct an election observation mission to the United Kingdom for the country's general elections on 7 May. OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ivica Dacic has designated OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Vice-President George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) as Special Co-ordinator of the short-term OSCE observers, which comprise 35 MPs from nearly 20 countries. "Parliamentarians from many OSCE participating

Isabel Santos, Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's human rights committee, speaks at the PA's Winter Meeting, 19 February 2015. COPENHAGEN, 16 April 2015 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today condemned the sentencing of Azerbaijani rights activist Rasul Jafarov to a lengthy prison term and called on the international community

АШХАБАД, 15 апреля 2015 года – Представители законодательной власти Туркменистана обсудили деятельность Парламентской ассамблеи ОБСЕ (ПА ОБСЕ) и возможности активизации их участия в ее работе во время семинара, организованного на этой неделе Парламентской ассамблеей и Центром ОБСЕ в Ашхабаде. Программа семинара, который состоялся в Меджлисе - парламенте Туркменистана, включала презентации Тьерри Мариани, депутата Национальной Ассамблеи Франции,