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OSCE PA Working Group on Belarus Visits Minsk and Gomel

Publishing date: 29 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
MINSK, 28 May 2003- Three members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Working Group on Belarus, Ms. Uta Zapf (Germany), the Chair of the Group, Mr. Urban Ahlin (Sweden), and Lord Ponsonby (United Kingdom) visited Gomel and Minsk...

Armenian elections show improvement over presidential voting, but fail to meet international standards in key areas

Publishing date: 26 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Elections
YEREVAN, 26 May 2003- Sunday's parliamentary elections in Armenia marked an improvement over the recent presidential voting, but failed to meet international standards in several key areas, concluded an international observation mission.

International observers condemn violence overshadowing Armenian parliamentary elections

Publishing date: 26 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections, Media freedom and development
YEREVAN, 26 May 2003- The international election observation mission for the Armenian parliamentary elections strongly condemns the shooting last night at a polling station in Shahumian, south of Yerevan, that reportedly resulted in the death of one...

Italian Parliamentarian Giovanni Kessler to lead OSCE observation of Armenian elections

Publishing date: 26 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Elections
COPENHAGEN, 23 May 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has appointed Giovanni Kessler, member of the Italian Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, as his Special Representative during the...

Parliamentarians adopt Bern Declaration on promoting small business in the OSCE region

Publishing date: 16 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
BERN, 15 May 2003- After discussions from 14-16 May in the Swiss Parliament in Bern, more then 80 parliamentarians from 30 OSCE participating States adopted the Bern Declaration on Promoting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the OSCE region...

PA President Bruce George to meet in Sofia with OSCE 2004 Chairmanship

Publishing date: 15 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 15 May 2003- The President of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), Bruce George, will pay an official visit to Bulgaria on 19 and 20 May, at the invitation of the Foreign Minister...

OSCE PA seminar on federalism starts in Moldova

Publishing date: 12 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
CHISINAU, 12 May 2003- Bruce George, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) joined fellow parliamentarians from the Moldovan Parliament and the Transdniestrian Supreme Soviet today in Chisinau to open a key seminar on federalism in...