DEUTSCHE PRESS-AGENTUR 20 December 2010 The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Monday condemned Belarus' latest presidential election and said that the counting of votes was seriously flawed. 'While voting on election day was overall assessed positively, the process deteriorated significantly during the vote count, with observers assessing almost half of vote counts monitored as bad or very bad,' the OSCE said in a

REUTERS 20 December 2010 International monitors on Monday criticised the conduct of a presidential election in Belarus as "flawed" and condemned a "heavy-handed" crackdown by police on opposition leaders and demonstrators. "This election failed to give Belarus the new start it needed," said Tony Lloyd, head of the short-term observer mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, after President Alexander Lukashenko was

Belarus Tony lloyd MINSK, 20 December 2010 – Yesterday’s presidential election showed that Belarus still has a considerable way to go in meeting its OSCE commitments, although some specific improvements were made, concluded the international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA). Election night was marred by the detention of most presidential candidates

КОПЕНГАГЕНА, 15 декабря 2010 -- Тони Ллойд, член британской делегации в Парламентской Ассамблее ОБСЕ, назначен Действующим председателем ОБСЕ, Министром иностранных дел и Государственным секретарем Казахстана Канатом Саудабаевым в качестве Специального координатора краткосрочной миссии ОБСЕ по наблюдению за президентскими выборами 19 декабря в Беларуси. Г-н Ллойд был также назначен председателем Ассамблеи Петросом Эфтимиу возглавить делегацию

Eurasia Daily Monitor 13 December 2010 By: Roman Muzalevsky Volume: 7 Issue: 222 When the Helsinki Final Act was adopted in 1975 to reduce tensions between East and West during the Cold War, few believed in its potential to transform the international security architecture by way of advancing border stability and human rights. Yet, the Helsinki Final Act precipitated the end of the Cold War era and collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to the

INTERFAX.BY 3 December 2010 Британский парламентарий Тони Ллойд, член делегации Великобритании в ПА ОБСЕ возглавит миссию краткосрочных наблюдателей БДИПЧ ОБСЕ на выборах президента Беларуси, сообщили агентству "Интерфакс- Запад" в пресс-службе Парламентской Ассамблеи ОБСЕ. "Данное назначение одобрено министром иностранных дел председательствующего в ОБСЕ Казахстана Канатом Саудабаевым", - говорится в сообщении. Кроме того, Т.Ллойд также будет