TREND NEWS 23 February 2010 Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.23 / Trend News, E. Ostapenko / A high-level delegation from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), headed by President Joao Soares and the Special Representative on Nagorno-Karabakh Goran Lennmarker, will pay a three day visit to Azerbaijan in mid-March, the OSCE said. The OSCE PA's delegation will visit Azerbaijan March 13-16 within a regional visit to all three South Caucasus countries.

TREND NEWS 18 February 2010 The two-day winter meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly kicked off in the Austrian capital Vienna with many important issues on the Agenda. Two days parliamentarians from the OSCE participating states will try to tackle various issues from the ways of dealing with the frozen conflicts to addressing hate crimes. The frozen conflicts, however, will probably remain in the main focus of the OSCE work in 2010, under

EARTH TIMES 15 February 2010 Kiev - (DPA) -- A representative of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said she would take legal action Tuesday to overturn the presidential vote in which her rival Viktor Yanukovych was declared the winner. Tymoshenko intends to sue the Central Election Commission (CEC) for failing to recognize fraud and for falsely declaring former prime minister Viktor Yanukovych the winner in the February 7 poll, her

KYIV Post By John Marone 12 February 2010 Victor Yanukovych, the man accused of trying to steal Ukraine's presidency in 2004, is now being roundly recognized as the country's next president, following his slim victory over Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the Feb. 7 runoff. By everyone except Tymoshenko, that is. Tymoshenko's team has vowed to continue challenging the vote results, alleging large-scale election fraud and demanding a recount

THE WASHINGTON POST 9 February 2010 By Philip P. Pan International monitors on Monday described Ukraine's presidential election as free and fair, putting pressure on Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat despite a tight vote count and charges of irregularities. Tymoshenko, the heroine of Ukraine's Orange Revolution, canceled a news conference and appeared to be mulling a court challenge as opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych held on

EURONEWS 8 February 2010 There is growing pressure on Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat. Supporters of pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovich are celebrating his victory as Ukraine's new president. This even though the final results have not yet been announced after Sunday's run-off ballot. But election commission officials say there is no chance of changing the score: Yanukovich will stay ahead by at least two percentage points. This is a spectacular