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Statement by the Delegation of the United States in response to the report by the Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti
Publishing date: 27 November 2008
742nd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Statement by the Delegation of the United States in response to the report by the High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ambassador Knut Vollebaek
Publishing date: 27 November 2008
742nd Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Information package
Publishing date: 23 July 2009
Meeting to Review the Document on Small Arms and Light Weapons and its Supplementary Decisions, Vienna, 22-23 September 2009.
Permanent Council Decision No. 848
Publishing date: 8 May 2008
Collections: 712th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council
Recommendation to appoint the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Transcript of video address by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Publishing date: 14 September 2009
OSCE/Alliance against Trafficking in Persons conference on prevention of modern slavery, Vienna, 14-15 September 2009
Joint Opinion on the Draft Law No. 3366 Abour Elections tro the Parliament of Ukraine
Publishing date: 15 June 2009
Collections: Election-related Legal Opinions and Comments
This joint opinion on the Draft Law No. 3366 About Election to the Parliament of Ukraine (“draft law”) is provided by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) and the Council of Europe’s European Commission for Democracy through Law (“Venice Commission”) upon a request from the Ukrainian Parliament Committee on State Building and Local Self-Governance. This joint opinion comments on the most recent version of the draft law (CDL(2009)084). Earlier opinions of the OSCE/ODIHR and the Venice Commission, as well as numerous election reports from previous OSCE/ODIHR and Council of Europe observation missions in Ukraine, provide excellent background for understanding the historical development of the election legislation in Ukraine. This draft law continues to incorporate recommendations for improvement. The most significant change is the introduction of a new electoral system. The system proposed in the draft law provides for 450 parliamentarians to be elected under a form of proportional representation that uses territorial election districts, including a foreign territorial election district where ballots are cast by out of country voters. Under the proposed system, most members of parliament will be elected from national lists, with the mathematical possibility for individual political party candidates to be elected within an in-country territorial election district from a territorial list.
Statement by the Delegation of Norway on recent incidents in Abkhazia, Georgia
Publishing date: 30 April 2008
544th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation
Statement by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union on recent incidents in Abkhazia, Georgia
Publishing date: 30 April 2008
544th Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation
Opening address by Knut Vollebaek, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Publishing date: 15 September 2009
International conference "Minorities in a Seamless Europe: The Role of Trans-frontier Co-operation" organized by the Prime Minister's Office of the Republic of Hungary, Budapest, 15 September 2009.
Aarhus Centres Meeting Report, 22-23 January 2009
Publishing date: 16 June 2009
Report of the Aarhus Centres Meeting in Vienna, 22-23 January 2009.