Kent Harstedt, Special Co-ordinator of the short-term OSCE observer mission for Ukraine's parliamentary elections (left), meets with Ruslan Nimchinskyi, Ukrainian Charge d’Affaires in Moscow, on 23 September. COPENHAGEN, 25 September 2014 – Kent Harstedt (MP, Sweden), the Special Co-ordinator of the short-term OSCE observer mission for Ukraine's parliamentary elections, has met with Ukraine's Charge d'Affaires in Moscow to discuss opportunities

Mehmet Sevki Kulkuloglu (MP, Turkey) is Vice-Chair of the OSCE PA's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions. COPENHAGEN, 23 September 2014 – As the international community supports a diplomatic solution in Ukraine, the humanitarian impact of the crisis must not be overlooked, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Mehmet Sevki Kulkuloglu told a gathering of international human rights experts in Warsaw. Kulkuloglu, a member of

COPENHAGEN, 23 September 2014 -- The first in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Helsinki +40 series of international seminars aimed at fomenting reform of the OSCE takes place this Thursday, 25 September, in Moscow. The event, hosted by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) , will bring together OSCE parliamentary leaders, top Russian lawmakers, OSCE experts and academicians to evaluate the Organization's past and chart lines of

Kent Harstedt, who will serve as Special Co-Ordinator of the short-term OSCE observer mission for Ukraine's parliamentary elections, is seen monitoring at a polling station in Odessa on 25 May 2014. COPENHAGEN, 22 September 2014 – OSCE parliamentarians will observe next month's parliamentary elections in Ukraine and lead the short-term OSCE observer mission. Upon the recommendation of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva, OSCE

COPENHAGEN, 18 September 2014 – OSCE parliamentarians will observe the upcoming general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina and lead the short-term OSCE observer mission. Upon the recommendation of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Didier Burkhalter has designated Roberto Battelli (MP, Slovenia) as Special Co-ordinator to the lead the short-term OSCE observer mission for the 12 October vote.

OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva addresses the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament on 11 September in Oslo. COPENHAGEN, 12 September 2014 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) has called for a zero impunity policy when OSCE principles are violated in the Ukrainian conflict during an address at the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament in Oslo. The OSCE PA president also held several bilateral