COPENHAGEN, 4 September 2017 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (Austria) has denounced the latest nuclear test in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – the sixth carried out by Pyongyang since 2006 – and reiterated the need to de-escalate tensions, promote stability and prioritize nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. “North Korea’s nuclear test carried out over the weekend must be unequivocally denounced as

President Christine Muttonen addresses Pugwash Conference in Astana on 25 August 2017 ASTANA, 25 August 2017 – Building a common security system for the OSCE area based on trust and co-operation is incompatible with national security strategies based on nuclear deterrence, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen said today at the 62nd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Astana, Kazakhstan. In order to advance

COPENHAGEN, 17 August 2017 – OSCE Parliamentary President Christine Muttonen (Austria), Ad Hoc Committee on Countering Terrorism Chair Makis Voridis (Greece) and human rights committee Chair Nacho Sanchez Amor (Spain) condemned today the attack in Barcelona, Spain, which is being treated by the authorities as terrorism. At least 13 people were killed and 50 seriously injured when a van plowed into pedestrians in the city’s historic Las Ramblas

Ignacio Sanchez Amor at the OSCE PA's Annual Session in Minsk, 5 July 2017 COPENHAGEN, 21 July 2017 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee, Spanish parliamentarian Ignacio Sanchez Amor, today expressed deep concern at recent actions taken by the ruling party in Poland related to reforming the judiciary. “It is hard to see the recent actions as anything other than a dedicated assault on judicial independence by

Ivana Dobesova, Ignacio Sanchez Amor and Kyriakos Kyriakou-Hadjiyianni at the Annual Session in Minsk, 8 July 2017 COPENHAGEN, 20 July 2017 – The three officers of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions – Chair Ignacio Sanchez Amor (Spain), Vice-Chair Ivana Dobesova (Czech Republic) and Rapporteur Kyriakos Kyriakou-Hadjiyianni (Cyprus) – today issued the following statement regarding

OSCE PA President Christine Muttonen addresses OSCE Foreign Ministers in Mauerbach, Austria, 11 July 2017. MAUERBACH, Austria, 11 July 2017 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) addressed today the OSCE Informal Ministerial Meeting being held in Mauerbach, Austria, under the theme “Building Trust through Dialogue and Co-operation.” The meeting, convened by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austrian Foreign