President Petros Efthymiou meeting the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev (OSCE/Vladimir Trofimchuk) ASTANA, 1 December 2010 – OSCE PA President Petros Efthymiou called today for strengthening transparency and accountability in the OSCE in an address at the start of the OSCE Astana Summit. The OSCE is facing an “identity crisis,” said the President, but the roots of the crisis can be identified. He cited a lack of mutual trust that

ASTANA, 30 November 2010 — On the eve of the seventh OSCE Summit in Kazakhstan, eleven years after the last OSCE Summit in Istanbul, the Bureau of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly met today in Astana. After this meeting with the senior leadership of the Assembly, I would like to welcome once again, on behalf of the OSCE PA, that the 2010 OSCE Chairmanship of Kazakhstan brought new dynamics and confidence to the Organization. Kazakhstan’s

Tonino Picula, together with Indrek Saar from the Council of Europe, delivers the post-election statement in Chisinau. CHISINAU, 29 November 2010 – Yesterday’s early parliamentary elections in Moldova met most OSCE and Council of Europe commitments, the international observers concluded in a statement issued today. The observers noted that the elections were administered in a transparent and impartial manner and a diverse field of candidates

Wolfgang Grossruck at a polling station in Baku on 7 November. BAKU, 8 November 2010 – Yesterday's parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan were characterized by a peaceful atmosphere and all opposition parties participated in the political process, but the conduct of these elections overall was not sufficient to constitute meaningful progress in the democratic development of the country, international observers said in a statement issued today.

THE FINANCIAL 8 November 2010 Yesterday's parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan were characterized by a peaceful atmosphere and all opposition parties participated in the political process, but the conduct of these elections overall was not sufficient to constitute meaningful progress in the democratic development of the country, international observers said in a statement issued on November 8. "The observers noted that the Central Election

BAKU, 6 November 2010 - The international observers monitoring the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan will present their preliminary post-election statement at a news conference on Monday, 8 November, in Baku. The international observation is a common endeavour involving the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe