COPENHAGEN, 29 June 2011 – A resolution proposed by Serbian MP Suzana Grubjesic and now pending at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly would recommend the urgent undertaking of an international investigation into organ trafficking crimes committed in Kosovo and Metohija. “Human trafficking alone is one of the most severe crimes against humanity, but trafficking in human organs takes this crime to an

COPENHAGEN, 28 June 2011 – National governments should do more to make information freely available online and tear down the digital divide that leaves lower income people unequal Internet access, according to a resolution now pending before the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly. The resolution introduced by Slovenian MP Luka Juri and co-sponsored by 40 parliamentarians from 15 countries stresses the

КОПЕНГАГЕН, 30 июня 2011 года – Генеральный секретарь ПА ОБСЕ Спенсер Оливер встретился 28 июня в Москве с Председателем Центральной избирательной комиссии России Владимиром Чуровым для обсуждения условий наблюдения за российскими парламентскими выборами, которые состоятся 4 декабря. ПА ОБСЕ наблюдала все российские парламентские выборы с 1993 г. В 2007 г., когда ОБСЕ\БДИПЧ решило не осуществлять наблюдение в связи с ограничениями по

COPENHAGEN, 29 June 2011 – The Arab uprisings in North Africa – with more than a million refugees leaving their home countries – has created a migration challenge that requires greatly enhanced international co-ordination, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative on Migration Kathleen Ferrier (MP, Netherlands) said today. OSCE Partners for Co-operation Tunisia and Egypt have taken in almost one million people from Libya since

COPENHAGEN, 28 June 2011 – Meeting for the first time since the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will consider a resolution to address nuclear energy safety and create a global system to co-ordinate disaster preparedness and response. With nuclear energy accounting for 35 per cent of Europe’s electricity, the resolution stresses the need to plan energy infrastructure mindful of “environmental threats and nuclear

MOSCOW, 28 June 2011 – OSCE PA Secretary General Spencer Oliver met with Russian Central Election Commission Chairman Vladimir Churov 28 June in Moscow to discuss modalities for the observation of the Russian parliamentary elections to take place on 4 December. The OSCE PA has observed every Russian parliamentary election since 1993. In 2007, when OSCE/ODIHR chose not to observe due to numerical limitations placed on their proposed observation