MOLDPRES 01 February 2010 CHISINAU -- "The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe continues to be an important forum for dialogue in our efforts to integrate our state," Parliament Speaker and acting President Mihai Ghimpu said at a today's meeting with a special representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office for protracted conflicts, Bolat Nurgaliev, the parliament's media relations department has said. President Mihai Ghimpu

APA 23 January 2010 Baku. Victoria Dementyeva – APA. A high-level delegation from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), led by President Joao Soares and the Special Representative on Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia, President Emeritus Goran Lennmarker, will visit the South Caucasus next month, Director of Communications of the OSCE PA Klas Bergman told APA. The visit will take place from 9 to 16 March. It will begin in Georgia, 9 and 10

MOLDPRES 19 January 2010 "The OSCE backs the new positive measures taken by the Moldovan authorities to peacefully solve the Transnistrian conflict. We back the actions carried out in the interest of citizens both publicly and via the OSCE reports." The statements were made by representatives of the group for Moldova of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, headed by Swedish MP Walburga Habsburg Douglas, at a meeting with Moldovan Parliament Speaker

Коммерсантъ Украина 19 January 2010 Международные наблюдатели положительно оценили ход первого тура выборов президента Крупнейшие миссии иностранных наблюдателей, аккредитованные в Украине, вчера заявили о соответствии первого тура президентских выборов демократическим стандартам. Наблюдатели признали, что на участках регистрировались нарушения — от голосования без документов до попыток подкупа — но все они не были системными и не повлияли на

ASSOCIATED PRESS By Douglas Birch 19 January 2010 KIEV, Ukraine - Opposition leader Viktor Yanukoyvch, the chief target of the 2004 Orange Revolution, took a big lead in the first round of Ukraine's presidential election over his rival, Orange heroine and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, officials said Monday. But that advantage after Sunday's vote could prove illusory when the two go head-to-head in the final round of voting Feb. 7. Many

NATIONAL POST 18 January 2010 Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who was second with just under 25%, will face off against Mr. Yanukovych in a Feb. 7 run-off vote. "This was a good and competitive election and very promising for the future of Ukraine's democracy," said Joao Soares, head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's observer mission, in a statement. "I look forward to the continuation of this positive experience in