News and press releases

COPENHAGEN, 27 September 2013 – By the registration deadline of 24 September, 25 observers had signed up for the OSCE PA mission to the 9 October presidential election in Azerbaijan, including 16 MPs from 14 countries. President Ranko Krivokapic has appointed Vice-President Doris Barnett from Germany to head the OSCE PA delegation. The Chair of the First General Committee Makis Voridis (MP, Greece) will serve as Deputy Head of Delegation.

COPENHAGEN, 24 September 2013 – Mehmet Şevki Kulkuloglu, Vice-Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, addressed the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw yesterday.

COPENHAGEN, 12 September 2013 – Makis Voridis, Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Political Affairs and Security, today addressed the Regional Conference on the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security for the Mediterranean Region held in Malta.

COPENHAGEN, 18 July 2013-- Isabel Santos (Portugal), chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, today released the following statement regarding a Russian court's verdict in the case of Alexey Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov:

PODGORICA, Montenegro, 16 July 2013- OSCE PA President Ranko Krivokapic met the State minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia Alexi Petriashvili today in Podgorica.

BELGRADE, Serbia, 13 July 2013 – OSCE PA President Ranko Krivokapić spoke Thursday at a special sitting of the Serbian Parliament called in his honour by Speaker Nebojša Stefanović and hailed parliamentary support for OSCE field work at a visit Friday to the OSCE Mission in Serbia.

ISTANBUL, 3 July 2013 – After four days of debates, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly today adopted a sweeping declaration aimed at jumpstarting the 57 member states and the Organization itself into action on comprehensive security commitments, including human rights.