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OSCE PA Annual Session: confidence-building in military sphere the focus of First Committee resolution
Publishing date: 13 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 13 June 2014 – Enhanced confidence-building measures in the military sphere, democratic control of countries’ armed forces and a comprehensive assessment of cyber threats are among key recommendations made by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Political Affairs and Security (First Committee) in its draft resolution for the PA’s upcoming Annual Session...
In Kazakhstan, OSCE PA human rights chair meets imprisoned opposition leader
Publishing date: 12 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 11 June 2014 – Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, met today with jailed Kazakhstani opposition leader Vladimir Kozlov at a penal colony outside Almaty...
Ukraine mediation efforts top agenda as OSCE PA President visits Berlin
Publishing date: 6 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 6 June 2014 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ranko Krivokapic has completed a visit to Berlin, where Ukraine mediation efforts topped the agenda in talks with the President of the German Bundestag and other parliamentary and government leaders...
Sentencing of Mammadli “an affront to OSCE values” in Azerbaijan, OSCE PA Human Rights Chair says
Publishing date: 30 May 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 28 May 2014 – Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), the chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, today deplored the sentencing of rights defender Anar Mammadli by a Baku court to 5 ½ years in prison...
Soares and Kanerva arrive in Kyiv to lead OSCE short-term election observers
Publishing date: 24 May 2014
KYIV, 23 May 2014 – Joao Soares (MP, Portugal), the Special Co-ordinator of the OSCE's short-term observation mission for Ukraine's presidential election, has arrived in Kyiv alongside fellow parliamentarians ahead of the 25 May vote...
Finnish Institute of International Affairs joins the OSCE PA’s Helsinki +40 Project
Publishing date: 21 May 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 21 May 2014 – The Finnish Institute of International Affairs has joined the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Helsinki +40 Project, an initiative that will bring together security and human rights experts, politicians and academia to evaluate the OSCE's past and chart concrete lines of action for the future.
Ukrainian election key to national progress, says OSCE PA delegation in Lviv
Publishing date: 16 May 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
LVIV, 16 May 2014 – In the latest in a series of high-level visits to Ukraine ahead of the presidential election later this month, senior members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly today emphasized the importance of holding a fair vote in line with OSCE election-related commitments.