OSCE PA Special Envoy Adil Akhmetov, Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Zhanybek Karibzhanov, and the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy, Jan Kubis at a meeting in Bishkek, 10 April 2010 (OSCE/Malik Alymkulov) Following last week’s turmoil, Adil Akhmetov, a member of the Kazakh delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, was appointed Special Envoy to Kyrgyzstan by the Assembly’s President Joao Soares on 9 April and traveled

COPENHAGEN, 9 April 2010 -- Adil Akhmetov, a member of the Kazakh delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, has been appointed a Special Envoy to Kyrgyzstan by President João Soares. Mr. Akhmetov will arrive in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek Saturday morning, 10 April, and will make contact with relevant interlocutors to discuss possible contributions by the Parliamentary Assembly to help stabilize the situation in the country. President

COPENHAGEN, 8 April 2010 – The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Joao Soares, today expressed his deep concern for those killed and injured in clashes in recent days in Kyrgyzstan and urged all parties to exercise restraint and to seek a peaceful solution. “It is absolutely unacceptable that political leaders, including former Members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, have been subject to imprisonment or violence,” Mr. Soares

RIA NOVOSTI 8 April 2010 Préoccupée par les troubles au Kirghizstan, l'Assemblée parlementaire de l'Organisation pour la sécurité et la coopération en Europe (OSCE) invite les parties en conflit à faire preuve de retenue et à chercher un règlement négocié à la crise, a annoncé le président de l'Assemblée Joao Soares. "Il est absolument inadmissible que les leaders politiques, dont d'anciens membres de l'Assemblée parlementaire de l'OSCE, soient

COPENHAGEN, 29 March 2010 – Expressing his deep sympathy for the victims and families of this morning’s terrorist attacks in Moscow, the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Joao Soares, strongly condemned the attacks. “Nothing can justify the senseless killings that took place in Moscow this morning. The perpetrators of these terrorist attacks are criminals and must be dealt with in precisely this manner. A thorough and transparent

COPENHAGEN, 24 March 2010 – The heads of three European parliamentary bodies dealing with Belarus have firmly condemned the execution of Andrei Zhuk and Vasily Yuzepchuk which, according to human rights organisations, took place in Belarus last week in complete secrecy and which has yet to be confirmed officially by the authorities. The statement was made by Sinikka Hurskainen, Jacek Protasiewicz and Uta Zapf, who head the bodies dealing with