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OSCE PA President deplores terror attack in Turkey
Publishing date: 14 March 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism
COPENHAGEN, 14 March 2016 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) issued the following statement on the 13 March terrorist attack in Ankara:...
OSCE parliamentarians to observe early parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 9 March 2016
COPENHAGEN, 9 March 2016 – OSCE parliamentarians will observe the upcoming early parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan and provide leadership for the OSCE’s short-term observer mission...
Migration and security in focus, as OSCE PA Chairperson Santos, Secretary General Montella address Rome panels
Publishing date: 4 March 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ROME, 4 March 2016 – The Chairperson of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), and OSCE PA Secretary General Roberto Montella addressed high-level panels in Rome this week on the crisis of migrants and refugees and the international community’s response...
Migrants crisis, Ukraine in focus as OSCE PA Winter Meeting opens
Publishing date: 25 February 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
VIENNA, 25 February 2016 – Nearly 300 lawmakers from Europe, Asia and North America, including four speakers of parliament, assembled today in Vienna for the opening of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2016 Winter Meeting, its first major convocation of the year...
OSCE PA President strongly condemns Ankara attack
Publishing date: 18 February 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Countering terrorism
COPENHAGEN, 18 February 2016 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) issued the following statement on the 17 February terror attack in Ankara:
Crisis of migrants and refugees tops agenda for 2016 OSCE PA Winter Meeting
Publishing date: 17 February 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 17 February 2016 – The crisis of migrants and refugees in the OSCE area and efforts to strengthen the collective response will be the focus of debate and presentations at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Winter Meeting, held at the Hofburg Congress Centre in Vienna on 25-26 February...
Bulgaria’s Vigenin appointed OSCE PA Special Representative on the South Caucasus
Publishing date: 12 February 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 12 February 2016 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) has appointed Bulgarian parliamentarian Kristian Vigenin to serve as the Assembly’s Special Representative on the South Caucasus...