OSCE Special Co-ordinator George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) exits a London polling station, 7 May. LONDON, 8 May 2015 – The 7 May General Elections in the United Kingdom provided an opportunity for a thorough debate on challenges facing the country, and voters could freely cast their ballots in a strong demonstration of democratic processes, observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly concluded. They noted that several aspects of the system

Isabel Santos, Chair of the OSCE PA's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, speaks on 5 May. COPENHAGEN, 5 May 2015 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today addressed government representatives from the OSCE's 57 participating States in Vienna, urging robust action and an end to "business as usual" on issues

Seminar participants included (top left to right): OSCE PA Secretary General Spencer Oliver; John Bernhard, Special Advisor of the Chairperson-in-Office on the Legal Framework; OSCE PA Amb. Andreas Nothelle; Lisa Tabassi, the Head of Legal Services at the OSCE Secretariat; Miodrag Panceski, the Deputy Head of Serbia’s Mission to the OSCE; and OSCE PA Helsinki +40 Project Chair Joao Soares. COPENHAGEN, 28 April 2015 – The OSCE's lack of a clear,

WASHINGTON, 28 April 2015 – U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism and Intolerance, met with local leaders and government officials in Paris and Copenhagen over the weekend as follow-up to the violent attacks that took place in both cities earlier this year – the siege at a Kosher Market following the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the shooting at a free speech event at

COPENHAGEN, 27 April 2015 – A military advance by illegal separatists in Ukraine on the city of Mariupol could have "disastrous consequences" for efforts to achieve a diplomatic solution to the crisis in the country, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) said today following a meeting of the Assembly's Bureau in the Danish Parliament. "I am gravely concerned by the reports from OSCE monitors of a sharp escalation of

COPENHAGEN, 27 April 2015 – The Bureau of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, composed of the Assembly’s elected leadership from nearly 20 OSCE participating States, met today in the Danish capital to discuss recent work, initiatives in progress and plans for the future. In opening the meeting, PA President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) discussed the Assembly’s upcoming Annual Session in Helsinki, the ongoing Helsinki +40 seminar project and