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Statement of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President on the policing of protests in the United States
Publishing date: 1 June 2020
COPENHAGEN, 1 June 2020 – Today, the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Georgian parliamentarian George Tsereteli, issued the following statement on the situation in the United States...
Lessons learned from COVID-19 crisis should help revitalize multilateralism, OSCE Secretary General Greminger tells PA leaders
Publishing date: 29 May 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 29 May 2020 – Addressing the leaders of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in an online forum today, OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger discussed the challenges that COVID-19 is posing to multilateral diplomacy and highlighted how the OSCE has responded with flexibility and resilience in the face of the crisis...
Online forum promotes regional dialogue in southeastern Europe with leaders of PA Delegations and heads of OSCE field operations
Publishing date: 26 May 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 25 May 2020 – Launching a series of informal meetings for the OSCE PA leadership to discuss regional issues with OSCE PA delegations, parliamentarians from southeastern European countries met online Monday with Assembly President George Tsereteli (Georgia) and Secretary General Roberto Montella.
COVID-19 recovery must be a turning point for environmental protection, participants say in OSCE PA webinar
Publishing date: 23 May 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Environmental activities
COPENHAGEN, 22 May 2020 – In developing COVID-19 recovery plans, policymakers have an opportunity to advance an agenda to protect the environment while creating new employment opportunities, participants said in the fourth OSCE Parliamentary Assembly webinar on the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic underscores the need to build a more environmentally responsible world, said OSCE parliamentarians, emphasizing that there is a growing understanding that environmental protection, public health and economic development are closely related.
New Developments On Monday, May 18, 700,000 students in Austria return to school, after a nine-week hiatus due to the corona measures. On Friday, May 15, Sate Secretary for Cultural Affairs Ulrike Lunacek resigned in a press conference. On Friday, May 1
Publishing date: 18 May 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 18 May 2020 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on South East Europe, Mark Pritchard, welcomed the appointment of Ambassador Zef Mazi as Albania’s Chief Negotiator with the European Union...
States of emergency stress-testing democracy, OSCE parliamentarians hear in COVID-focused webinar
Publishing date: 8 May 2020
COPENHAGEN, 8 May 2020 – More than 50 members of parliament from across the OSCE region participated in an online discussion today focused on the human rights consequences and democratic challenges posed by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic...
Good governance must not be a victim of the COVID-19 crisis, says OSCE PA Special Representative on Fighting Corruption Charalambides
Publishing date: 8 May 2020
COPENHAGEN, 8 May 2020 – Significant efforts must be made to ensure that coronavirus-related emergency public spending measures adhere to the highest levels of transparency and principles of good governance, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on Fighting Corruption, Irene Charalambides (MP, Cyprus), said today. She noted that with governments taking a series of important decisions and allocating enormous sums of money to prop up the economy, legally prescribed procurement procedures must be followed...