Miratovac reception facilities in Serbia, 4 Feb. 2016. COPENHAGEN, 18 December 2016 – Members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on Migration today marked International Migrants Day with a call for European and global leaders to adopt a coherent, co-ordinated response to migration based on the principles of human rights and international co-operation that are at the heart of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in

Special Co-ordinator Roberto Battelli meets with Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki in Skopje, 7 Dec. 2016 SKOPJE, 12 December 2016 – The 11 December parliamentary elections in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia were competitive and an essential step in resolving two years of deep political crisis, but took place in an environment characterized by widespread public mistrust in institutions and the political establishment, international

COPENHAGEN, 12 December 2016 – In response to this weekend’s terrorist attacks near a football stadium in Istanbul and at a Coptic Christian cathedral complex in Cairo, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) issued the following statement: “I strongly condemn the terrorist attacks this weekend in Istanbul and Cairo, and extend my deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims. These heinous acts

Bureau of the OSCE PA's human rights committee: Kyriakos Kyriakou-Hadjiyianni, Ivana Dobesova and Ignacio Sanchez Amor COPENHAGEN, 10 December 2016 – Leaders of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee today marked Human Rights Day with calls for a greater commitment to fundamental freedoms and basic rights across the OSCE area. Committee Chair Ignacio Sanchez Amor (MP, Spain) stated that all OSCE countries should renew their

OSCE PA President Christine Muttonen, alongside OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, addresses the OSCE Ministerial Council in Hamburg, 8 Dec. 2016 HAMBURG, 8 December 2016 – Addressing the foreign ministers of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s 57 participating States and other dignitaries today, Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) said that a strong OSCE is needed to help to improve

OSCE PA President Christine Muttonen, Federation Council Chair Valentina Matvienko and OSCE PA Secretary General Roberto Montella, Moscow, 30 Nov. 2016 MOSCOW, 30 November 2016 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) met with Russian Federation Council Chairperson Valentina Matvienko and State Duma Deputy Chair Petr Tolstoi in Moscow this week for talks that focused on Russian involvement in the work of the OSCE