NEWS.AZ 14 May 2010 Almaty will host the Trans Asian Parliamentary Forum "OSCE Eurasian dimension" of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on May 14-16. The event will be attended by the Azerbaijani delegation to be headed by Bahar Muradova, vice speaker of Milli Medjlis (parliament), head of the Azerbaijani delegation in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.

ALMATY, 13 May 2010 – Matteo Mecacci, senior member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's committee on human rights, met today with Kazakh human rights advocate Yevgeny Zhovtis, serving a four-year sentence in a prison colony in Ust-Kamenogorsk. Mr. Zhovtis, director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, was sentenced to four years in prison following a fatal traffic accident last year. He had criticized the

President Joao Soares observing the UK elections in Manchester, with MPs Kabirov and Sanginov of Tajikistan. LONDON, 7 May 2010 - The 6 May 2010 general elections in the United Kingdom demonstrated that democracy is a vibrant force in the world’s oldest parliamentary system. In particular, direct debates between the leaders of the three major parties sparked interest in the democratic process and in public policy in the United Kingdom. “This is

AZERI PRESS AGENCY 3 May 2010 Baku. Viktoriya Dementyeva - APA. In light of Kazakhstan's 2010 Chairmanship, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan are holding the Second Trans-Asian Parliamentary Forum in Almaty, on 14-16 May 2010, APA reports. The theme of the forum is "The OSCE Eurasian Dimension" and will include parliamentarians from OSCE participating States, Mediterranean and Asian partner

NEWS.AZ 3 May 2010 The parliamentarians will be in the UK on May 3-8. Vice-speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament, head of Azerbaijani delegation to OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Bahar Muradova and MP Azay Guliyev will observe the parliamentary elections in the UK together with the OSCE observation mission, the parliament's press service said. The parliamentarians will be in the UK on May 3-8. They will visit the polling stations, give information

COPENHAGEN, 29 April 2010 — President Joao Soares has extended the mandate of and appointed new leadership to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on Transparency and Accountability. In a note to Committee members, President Soares cites the Assembly’s adoption of a resolution at the Annual Session in Vilnius calling for strengthening the OSCE, emphasizing that it is time to reinvigorate the work of the Transparency Committee. The