Belarus Tony lloyd MINSK, 20 December 2010 – Yesterday’s presidential election showed that Belarus still has a considerable way to go in meeting its OSCE commitments, although some specific improvements were made, concluded the international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA). Election night was marred by the detention of most presidential candidates

КОПЕНГАГЕНА, 15 декабря 2010 -- Тони Ллойд, член британской делегации в Парламентской Ассамблее ОБСЕ, назначен Действующим председателем ОБСЕ, Министром иностранных дел и Государственным секретарем Казахстана Канатом Саудабаевым в качестве Специального координатора краткосрочной миссии ОБСЕ по наблюдению за президентскими выборами 19 декабря в Беларуси. Г-н Ллойд был также назначен председателем Ассамблеи Петросом Эфтимиу возглавить делегацию

Eurasia Daily Monitor 13 December 2010 By: Roman Muzalevsky Volume: 7 Issue: 222 When the Helsinki Final Act was adopted in 1975 to reduce tensions between East and West during the Cold War, few believed in its potential to transform the international security architecture by way of advancing border stability and human rights. Yet, the Helsinki Final Act precipitated the end of the Cold War era and collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to the

INTERFAX.BY 3 December 2010 Британский парламентарий Тони Ллойд, член делегации Великобритании в ПА ОБСЕ возглавит миссию краткосрочных наблюдателей БДИПЧ ОБСЕ на выборах президента Беларуси, сообщили агентству "Интерфакс- Запад" в пресс-службе Парламентской Ассамблеи ОБСЕ. "Данное назначение одобрено министром иностранных дел председательствующего в ОБСЕ Казахстана Канатом Саудабаевым", - говорится в сообщении. Кроме того, Т.Ллойд также будет

KHALEEJ TIMES 2 December 2010 ASTANA - The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, opened on Wednesday in Astana the first OSCE Summit in 11 years, calling the gathering a "triumph of common sense" and urging the heads of state and government from the 56 OSCE participating States to "advance together towards a secure future for our peoples". "This journey was started three and a half decades ago," said President Nazarbayev in his opening

COPENHAGEN, 2 December 2010 – Tony Lloyd, Member of the British Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, has been appointed by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister and Secretary of State Kanat Saudabayev, as Special Co-ordinator of the OSCE Short-Term Observer Mission to the 19 December presidential election in Belarus. Mr. Lloyd has also been appointed by Assembly President Petros Efthymiou to head the OSCE PA’s