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Challenges faced by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and ways to address them through inclusivity, visibility and co-operation were the key topics of a meeting between the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ranko Krivokapic today in Vienna...

MONACO, 29 October 2013 – OSCE PA Vice-President Alain Néri (France) represented the Parliamentary Assembly at the OSCE Mediterranean Conference held in Monaco on 28-29 October 2013. This year the conference was held on the topic of "enhancing the role of women in public, political and economic life."

TBILISI, 28 October 2013 – The 27 October presidential election in Georgia was efficiently administered, transparent and took place in an amicable and constructive environment, the international observers concluded in a preliminary statement released today. Fundamental freedoms of expression, movement and assembly were respected, and candidates were able to campaign without restriction.

TBILISI, 26 October 2013 (Georgian and Spanish versions below.) – Ignacio Sanchez Amor, Special Representative of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on Border Co-operation, today visited the administrative boundary lines in Georgia separating the region of South Ossetia. Following his visits to the villages of Ditsi and Didi Khurvaleti in the region of Gori, the Special Representative expressed deep regret regarding the establishment of physical obstacles along the administrative borders between the territory under Georgian control and the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

COPENHAGEN, 25 October 2013 – Former OSCE PA President Joao Soares (MP, Portugal), who was appointed by the OSCE Chairman-in-Office to serve as Special Co-ordinator of the OSCE observer mission to the 27 October presidential election in Georgia, opened the briefing of the short-term observers today in Tbilisi.

COPENHAGEN, 24 October 2013-- The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Second Committee, Roza Aknazarova (MP, Kyrgyzstan) took part in the 2013 Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meeting held in Vienna on 21-22 October.

COPENHAGEN, 23 October 2013 – Members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions Isabel Santos (Chair), Mehmet Sevki Kulkuloglu (Vice Chair), and Gordana Comic (Rapporteur), spoke Tuesday at the Human Dimension Committee in Vienna. The three parliamentarians were there to present to the OSCE governmental side the work of the OSCE PA on a range of human dimension issues.