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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Addressing OSCE PA Bureau Meeting ahead of Bratislava Ministerial Council, Chair’s Special Representative stresses importance of parliamentarians in increasing understanding on OSCE’s work
Publishing date: 4 December 2019
Ahead of the official start of the OSCE’s 26th Ministerial Council, the Bureau of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) met in Bratislava on 4 December 2019 to discuss their work over the course of the year. Bureau members heard from Assembly President George Tsereteli, Treasurer Peter Juel-Jensen, OSCE PA Secretary General Roberto Montella, and Lukas Parizek, Special Representative for the OSCE Chairmanship and State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia...
Democratic reforms and regional dialogue at crux of OSCE PA President's visit to Yerevan
Publishing date: 27 November 2019
YEREVAN, 27 November 2019- Concluding a visit to Yerevan, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) welcomed sustained efforts to firmly establish democratic institutions and practices in Armenia...
OSCE PA President and Secretary General visit Albania for discussions on 2020 OSCE Chairmanship, domestic reforms and foreign policy priorities
Publishing date: 19 November 2019
TIRANA, 19 November 2019 – OSCE PA President George Tsereteli and Secretary General Roberto Montella have concluded an official visit to Albania, as it prepares to assume the OSCE Chairmanship in 2020...
National minorities in focus: SG Montella addresses conference in Lund and receives visit of HCNM Zannier in Copenhagen
Publishing date: 14 November 2019
LUND, Sweden, 14 November 2019 – OSCE PA Secretary General Roberto Montella has addressed this morning a high-level conference organized by the Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Lund Recommendations on the effective participation of national minorities in public life...
More than 80 OSCE PA observers to deploy to Belarus for 17 November elections
Publishing date: 6 November 2019
COPENHAGEN, 6 November 2019 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is deploying some 80 observers, including 60 parliamentarians, to Belarus next week for the 17 November parliamentary elections.
Three decades after historic changes in Europe, President Tsereteli underlines need for effective multilateralism in speech to OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 31 October 2019
VIENNA, 31 October 2019 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli appealed today to strengthen co-operation between all OSCE institutions in an effort to close the gap between what governments have committed to and what they do in practice...
OSCE PA at the 2019 Nordic Council in Stockholm: synergies between Nordic and OSCE agendas in focus
Publishing date: 31 October 2019
STOCKHOLM, 31 October 2019 – Nordic approaches to issues on the OSCE agenda, including human rights and environmental concerns, have been underlined by a high-level Parliamentary Assembly delegation at the 2019 Meeting of the Nordic Council...