News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
In Rome, OSCE PA President highlights role of parliamentarians in fight against corruption
Publishing date: 12 November 2018
ROME, 12 November 2018 – Greater transparency is needed to achieve comprehensive security in the OSCE area, OSCE PA President George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) said in a speech today in Rome. He noted that parliamentarians are essential partners in the fight against corruption...
OSCE PA President Tsereteli regrets local ‘elections’ in Donbas, urges renewed commitment to international negotiations
Publishing date: 12 November 2018
COPENHAGEN, 12 November 2018 – In response to the holding of “elections” in the so-called “people’s republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine over the weekend, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli (Georgia) issued the following statement:
Voridis presents Parliamentary Assembly’s recommendations on counterterrorism to OSCE Security Committee, builds co-operation ahead of Ministerial Council
Publishing date: 12 November 2018
VIENNA, 12 November 2018 – In Vienna today, Makis Voridis, Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on Countering Terrorism, addressed the Security Committee of the OSCE and is holding a series of bilateral meetings to build synergy between the OSCE’s executive and parliamentary structures on preventing and countering terrorism.
US elections highly competitive, but voting rights not guaranteed for all groups, international observers say
Publishing date: 7 November 2018
WASHINGTON D.C., 7 November 2018 – The 6 November mid-term elections in the United States were highly competitive and contestants could campaign freely, with media presenting a wide array of information and views, enabling voters to make an informed choice. However, campaign rhetoric was often intensely negative and at times intolerant, including on social networks, the international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) concluded in a statement released today...
For 25 years Russians and Americans have observed each other’s elections: This year is nothing new
Publishing date: 2 November 2018
Op-ed by George Tsereteli and Isabel Santos, The Hill, 1 November 2018
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to deploy election observation mission to the United States
Publishing date: 30 October 2018
COPENHAGEN, 30 October 2018 – Some 75 members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will soon be travelling to the United States to observe the 6 November midterm elections. Led by Special Co-ordinator of the OSCE short-term observer mission George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) and Head of the OSCE PA mission Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), the observers will participate in several days of meetings and briefings in Washington, DC, before deploying around the country for election day observation...
Denmark’s and Sweden’s approaches to migration offer lessons for broader OSCE area, say participants of fact-finding field visit
Publishing date: 24 October 2018
COPENHAGEN, 24 October 2018 – The multi-pronged and multi-level responses to migration challenges in Denmark and Sweden have been in focus during a two-day field visit by members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on Migration, led by Chair Nahima Lanjri (MP, Belgium)...