31 January 2012
STOCKHOLM, 31 January 2012 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Vice President Walburga Habsburg Douglas (Sweden) is co-hosting a delegation of parliamentarians this week from the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic on a study visit to Sweden. The visiting delegation includes representatives of all five political parties in the Kyrgyzstani Parliament. The delegation will meet with Swedish parliamentarians, including colleagues from the committees on
27 January 2012
COPENHAGEN, 26 January 2012 – Matteo Mecacci, Chair of the OSCE PA human rights committee today called for respect of human rights and easing of conditions in Kyrgyzstan prisons after the government reported 80 per cent of the country's prisoners are on a hunger strike. More than 400 detainees in four correctional facilities in Kyrgyzstan are reported to have sewn their mouths shut as part of a protest demanding improved prison conditions. The
20 January 2012
COPENHAGEN, 20 January 2012 – The British government should report more frequently to Parliament on its activities within the OSCE, and the OSCE in Vienna should co-operate more fully with the Parliamentary Assembly, members of the British House of Lords said this week. Lord Peter Bowness (United Kingdom) and other British parliamentarians made the comments during an hour-long debate about the 56-country OSCE. "If Her Majesty's government is
Washington Post 16 January 2012 Weekend elections have determined that Kazakhstan's parliament is no longer a one-party chamber, but international observers say the vote failed to meet democratic standards. Authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbayev had called the snap election in November, so Kazakhstan could proceed further along the path of democracy, he said. According to preliminary results announced Monday, Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party
18 January 2012
The Telegraph 16 January 2012 Kazakhstan's parliamentary election has been described by European vote monitors as restrictive and falling short of democratic standards. Their assessment pulls away the thin democratic veil that the Kazakh authorities had tried to drape over the election. The vote may have ended Kazakhstan's one-party parliament but the two new entrants are pro-presidential parties and not genuine opposition. "Notwithstanding the
18 January 2012
Wall Street Journal 16 January 2012 ALMATY, Kazakhstan—The ruling Nur Otan Party scored a widely expected, sweeping victory in Sunday's parliamentary vote, according to preliminary results, but European observers said the poll "did not meet fundamental principles of democratic elections." "We expected better," said Joao Soares, the head of a 300-strong team of international observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
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