EURASIANET.ORG 20 May 2010 After an OSCE representative visited one of the Kazakhstan's most prominent human rights defenders in prison recently, Astana, the current OSCE chair, issued an order to ban reporting on the visit, reports an OSCE watchdog. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's human rights chief Matteo Mecacci visited Yevgeny Zhovtis at his prison colony near the remote town of Ust-Kamenogorsk on May 13. Zhovtis
TREND.AZ 17 May 2010 Turkic-speaking countries' Parliamentary Assembly (TurkPA) Secretary-General Ramil Hasanov noted the structure's intend to cooperate with the influential international organizations during his meeting with OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) Secretary-General Spencer Oliver, the TurkPA told Trend. Oliver named the possible ways to cooperate with the OSCE PA and projects that may be realized jointly with the TurkPA. The meeting
Roza Otunbaeva with Joao Soares at a roundtable discussion, 17 May 2010. BISHKEK, 17 May 2010 – A delegation of senior OSCE parliamentarians today called upon the provisional government and people of Kyrgyzstan to work together to ensure security, stability, and democracy for their country. “The quick action by the provisional government to remedy errors of the past through creating a new constitution is important. Now it is up to all of the
DER STANDARD 16 May 2010 OSZE-Parlamentarierkonferenz in Almaty im Zeichen der Krise im Nachbarland Die Boulevards der kasachischen Metropole Almaty sind gesäumt von Plakaten zum 65. Jahrestag des Sieges über Hitlerdeutschland. Sieger war zwar damals die Sowjetunion, und das wird mit dem Abbild eines riesigen Hammer-und-Sichel-Ordens auch entsprechend gewürdigt. Aber erstens verkörpert die Person des allmächtigen Präsidenten Nursultan
ALMATY, 15 May 2010 -- Under the theme “The OSCE Eurasian Dimension,” the Second Trans-Asian Parliamentary Forum, organized jointly by OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, was successfully concluded on 15 May. Over 100 parliamentarians from 35 OSCE participating States and Mediterranean partner countries, as well as parliamentarians from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Qatar, participated in the Forum during
NEWS.AZ 14 May 2010 Almaty will host the Trans Asian Parliamentary Forum "OSCE Eurasian dimension" of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on May 14-16. The event will be attended by the Azerbaijani delegation to be headed by Bahar Muradova, vice speaker of Milli Medjlis (parliament), head of the Azerbaijani delegation in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
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