COPENHAGEN, 22 October 2014 – OSCE parliamentarians will conduct a limited election observation mission to the United States of America for the country’s midterm Congressional elections on 4 November. Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, will serve as head of the delegation, which will comprise almost 40 MPs from 20 countries. “I am eager to

Kent Harstedt, the OSCE Special Co-ordinator for Ukraine's parliamentary elections (center), with CEC Head Mykhailo Okhendovskyi (left) and CEC Member Yuri Danylevskyi, Kyiv, 14 October. COPENHAGEN, 17 October 2014 – Kent Harstedt, the OSCE Special Co-ordinator and leader of the short-term OSCE observer mission for Ukraine's parliamentary elections, has completed a week-long preparatory visit to Kyiv, Kharkiv and Luhansk oblasts. Harstedt met

Roberto Battelli (MP, Slovenia), the OSCE Special Co-ordinator and leader of the short-term OSCE observer mission, and Marietta Tidei (MP, Italy), the Head of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Delegation of observers, look on as a citizen votes on 12 October in Bosnia and Herzegovina. SARAJEVO, 13 October 2014 – While the 12 October general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina were held in a competitive environment, the interethnic divide was a

OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva (left) and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic during their meeting in Helsinki, 9 October. COPENHAGEN, 9 October 2014 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) underscored the vital contribution of the PA to the OSCE's reform efforts on the 40th anniversary of its founding document at a seminar today in Helsinki. Kanerva also met with Serbian Foreign Minister and 2015 OSCE

OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier at the OSCE PA Standing Committee on 4 October. COPENHAGEN, 6 October 2014 – Addressing the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Standing Committee, consisting of heads of national delegations and elected members of the Bureau, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier on October 4 presented a detailed description of the proposed OSCE Budget for 2015. Following the presentation, the Secretary General fielded

Victor Dolidze, Head of Georgia's Delegation to the OSCE PA, at the Autumn Meeting in Geneva, 3 October 2014 COPENHAGEN, 6 October 2014 – At the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Standing Committee meeting in Geneva on 4 October, the Heads of National Delegations unanimously approved an invitation from Speaker of the Georgian Parliament David Usupashvili, delivered by Georgian Head of Delegation Victor Dolidze, for Georgia to host the Assembly's