12 February 2015
OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva (right) and Russian State Duma Chairperson Sergey Naryshkin ahead of their meeting in Moscow, 12 February. COPENHAGEN, 12 February 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) met today with Russian State Duma Chairperson Sergey Naryshkin in Moscow for talks that focused on Russia’s role in international efforts to resolve the crisis in and around Ukraine. The meeting provided an
10 February 2015
COPENHAGEN, 10 February 2015 – OSCE parliamentarians will observe the upcoming parliamentary elections in Tajikistan and provide leadership for the OSCE's short-term observer mission. OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ivica Dacic has designated Marietta Tidei (MP, Italy) as Special Co-ordinator to lead the short-term OSCE observer mission for the 1 March vote. Geir Joergen Bekkevold (MP, Norway) will serve as Head of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
07 February 2015
OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva (left) and Verkhovna Rada Chairperson Volodymyr Groysman speak to the media following their meeting in Kyiv, 6 February. COPENHAGEN, 6 February 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) met today with Verkhovna Rada Chairperson Volodymyr Groysman, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and other senior parliamentary and government officials in Kyiv for discussions that focused on the status
05 February 2015
Vienna's Hofburg Congress Centre will host the OSCE PA's Winter meeting on 18-20 February. COPENHAGEN, 5 February 2015 – The escalating crisis in and around Ukraine and the OSCE’s continuing efforts to help resolve it will be the focus of parliamentary debate and keynote presentations at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Winter Meeting , held on 18-20 February at the Hofburg Congress Centre in Vienna. OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbian
29 January 2015
The OSCE PA's Isabel Santos (right) and Mehmet Sevki Kulkuloglu (center) stand alongside OSCE PA Deputy Secretary General Gustavo Pallares before boarding their flight to Guantanamo. COPENHAGEN, 29 January 2015 – The leadership of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions has completed a visit to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and today called on OSCE countries to proactively assist
COPENHAGEN, 29 January 2015 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today issued the following statement on the Russian Supreme Court’s rejection of a request by the Justice Ministry to close the human rights group Memorial: "The decision of the Supreme Court to not shut down one of the country’s most prestigious and important human rights
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