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Azerbaijan’s President, OSCE Chair-in-Office open OSCE PA Annual Session
Publishing date: 28 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution
BAKU, 28 June 2014 – The 23rd OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session has begun in Baku, with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Swiss President and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Didier Burkhalter addressing nearly 300 parliamentarians from more than 50 nations...
OSCE PA President welcomes release of monitors in Ukraine
Publishing date: 27 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BAKU, 27 June 2014 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ranko Krivokapic today welcomed the release of four Donetsk-based monitors from the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine after they had spent 32 days in captivity...
OSCE PA Annual Session: Azerbaijani President, OSCE Chair, Russian Duma Chair, Ukrainian Rada Deputy Chair to feature on opening day
Publishing date: 26 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
BAKU, 26 June 2014 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s most important annual gathering begins on Saturday, 28 June in Baku with addresses by senior governmental and parliamentary leaders at the center of some of the international community’s most pressing security issues...
Preparations under way for OSCE PA Annual Session in Baku
Publishing date: 25 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
BAKU, 25 June 2014 – After two years of advance work and several preparatory visits, the 23rd OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session in Baku is becoming a reality...
Ceasefire a welcome step toward diplomatic solution in Ukraine, says OSCE PA Vice-President Barnett
Publishing date: 24 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 24 June 2014 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Vice-President Doris Barnett (MP, Germany) today welcomed the announcement by separatists in eastern Ukraine that they will observe a temporary ceasefire proposed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko...
OSCE PA Annual Session: Condemnation of Russia’s actions in Ukraine among proposed supplementary resolutions
Publishing date: 23 June 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 23 June 2014 – A condemnation of Russia’s actions during the ongoing crisis in Ukraine is among more than a dozen supplementary resolutions submitted for parliamentarians to consider at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Annual Session in Baku, which runs from 28 June to 2 July...
Bialiatski’s release “hopefully a sign of more to come,” says OSCE PA’s Holm
Publishing date: 23 June 2014
COPENHAGEN, 23 June 2014 – Christian Holm (MP, Sweden), the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Working Group on Belarus, today welcomed the release of human rights activist Ales Bialiatski after nearly three years into his prison term, calling the move “hopefully a sign of more to come”...