Special Co-ordinator Arta Dade (Albania) and head of the OSCE PA delegation Geir Joergen Bekkevold (Norway), Chisinau, 13 November 2016 CHISINAU, 14 November 2016 – The second round of the presidential election in Moldova was competitive, with respect for fundamental freedoms. The campaign, featuring televised debates, allowed the two candidates to address voters directly. However, increasingly polarized media coverage, harsh and intolerant

President Christine Muttonen meets with Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, 11 Nov. 2016 NEW YORK, 14 November 2016 – In a visit to United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday and Friday, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) highlighted the Assembly’s activities in a range of areas, including election observation, migration, gender, parliamentary diplomacy,

Christine Muttonen and Makis Voridis observing in Washington, DC, 8 Nov. 2016 WASHINGTON, 9 November, 2016 – The 8 November general elections in the United States were highly competitive and demonstrated commitment to fundamental freedoms of expression, assembly and association. The presidential campaign was characterized by harsh personal attacks, as well as intolerant rhetoric, particularly by one candidate, international observers from the

WASHINGTON, 8 November 2016 – The Head of the observer mission deployed by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to the 8 November General Elections in the United States, Greek parliamentarian Makis Voridis, today released the following message: “I was informed that someone affiliated with our team had expressed on Twitter his personal political preference for a candidate in the elections we are observing. This is in clear contravention of our

WASHINGTON, 7 November 2016 – The international observers monitoring the general elections in the United States will present their preliminary post-election statement at a news conference on Wednesday, 9 November, in Washington, D.C. The mission is a joint undertaking of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA). The statement will be delivered by Christine Muttonen,

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen WASHINGTON, 5 November 2016 – In response to the arrests of the two leaders of Turkey’s Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) along with at least ten other members of parliament, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) today expressed concern over these developments and called on Ankara to ensure that the parliamentarians enjoy their full legal rights. “The latest