OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva (center right) speaks during his meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, Kyiv, 13 November 2015. KYIV, 13 November 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) met today with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Kyiv at the conclusion of his three-day visit to the country. The sides discussed a range of policy- and security-related issues, including the current

OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva (right) listens to an internally displaced person's story at a dormitory facility in Artemivsk, Ukraine, 12 November 2015. DONETSK OBLAST, 12 November 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) today visited a range of sites in government-controlled Donetsk oblast, Ukraine, including near the line of contact with separatist-held areas, to survey the security situation and highlight

Chairman of Kazakhstan's Senate Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and OSCE PA Secretary General Spencer Oliver meeting in Astana on 10 November 2015. (Photo: Kazakh Parliament) COPENHAGEN, 12 November 2015 – OSCE PA Secretary General Spencer Oliver was a keynote speaker at the Astana Club’s inaugural meeting, held in the Kazakh capital from 9 to 11 November under the theme “The Geo-Economics of Eurasia.” Speaking on 9 November, Oliver addressed the OSCE’s

Isabel Santos COPENHAGEN, 12 November 2015 – The Chairperson of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today welcomed the release of imprisoned Azerbaijani rights activist Arif Yunus, as ordered by the Baku Court of Appeals due to his deteriorating health. In August 2015 Arif Yunus and his wife, Leyla Yunus, were sentenced to prison terms of 7 and 8½

OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva (center right) speaks during his meeting with Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Groysman, 11 November 2015. KYIV, 11 November 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) met today in Kyiv with Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) Chairman Volodymyr Groysman and parliamentarians from the Ukrainian Delegation to the Assembly for discussions that focused on the status of implementation of the

OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva COPENHAGEN, 5 November 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) today expressed concern about the recent uptick in violence in eastern Ukraine and called on all parties to the conflict to do their utmost to promote conditions conducive to a political settlement. “I am concerned by the increase in violence over the last days in eastern Ukraine, particularly in Donetsk oblast, and