Participants in the Belgrade seminar included: T op (left to right): OSCE PA Secretary General Spencer Oliver, President Ilkka Kanerva, Serbian Delegation Head Dijana Vukomanovic, BFPE President Sonja Licht Bottom (left to right): Serbian Ambassador Dejan Sahovic, OSCE PA human rights committee Rapporteur Gordana Comic COPENHAGEN, 28 May 2015 – The OSCE needs a strengthened presence on the ground, closer co-operation with civil society and a

OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva (left) during his meeting with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ivica Dacic in Belgrade, 27 May 2015. BELGRADE, 27 May 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) and Secretary General Spencer Oliver met today with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic in Belgrade for extensive discussions on the situation in and around Ukraine and other topics. Chairperson

COPENHAGEN, 19 May 2015 – OSCE parliamentarians will observe the upcoming parliamentary elections in Turkey and provide leadership for the OSCE's short-term observer mission. OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ivica Dacic has designated Vilija Aleknaite Abramikiene (MP, Lithuania) as Special Co-ordinator to lead the short-term OSCE observer mission for the 7 June vote. Ignacio Sanchez Amor (MP, Spain) will serve as Head of the OSCE Parliamentary

Kyrgyz MP Roza Aknazarova addresses the conference (top left); Swedish MP Margareta Cederfelt speaks with former President of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbaeva (top right); a view of the conference's opening plenary on 15 May (bottom) BISHKEK, 16 May 2015 – OSCE parliamentarians led by Kyrgyzstan's Roza Aknazarova joined government and parliamentary leaders and representatives of international organizations and civil society in Bishkek on May 15-16,

Isabel Santos, Chair of the Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions COPENHAGEN, 13 May 2015 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today expressed deep concern over continuing restrictions placed on freedom of media and freedom of speech in Turkey and urged the country's leaders to immediately abide by their

Marietta Tidei (left) and Nilza Sena (right) at the meeting in Belgrade, 11 May BELGRADE, 11 May 2015 – The OSCE’s work in water governance is helping to promote co-operation needed for realizing the Organization’s broader security agenda, said two leaders of the OSCE PA’s economic and environmental committee, Vice-Chair Nilza Sena (MP, Portugal) and Rapporteur Marietta Tidei (MP, Italy), at the Second Preparatory Meeting of the 23rd Economic