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Chair of OSCE PA Ad Hoc Committee on Countering Terrorism Makis Voridis remembers and pays tribute to victims of terrorism
Publishing date: 21 August 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Countering terrorism
COPENHAGEN, 21 August 2018 – In observance of International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism, Makis Voridis (Greece), Chair of the OSCE PA’s Ad Hoc Committee on Countering Terrorism, issued the following statement...
Statement by OSCE PA Special Representative on South East Europe Mark Pritchard on Bosnian Serb Parliament's decision to revoke report on Srebrenica massacre
Publishing date: 20 August 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 20 August 2018 – In response to a decision by the Republika Srpska National Assembly (RSNA) requesting the annulment of the 2004 Report of the Commission for Investigation of the Events in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 which acknowledged the mass killing of Bosniaks by Serb forces, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Special Representative on South East Europe, Mark Pritchard (United Kingdom), today issued the following statement:
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s newly appointed Special Representative on South East Europe concludes visit to Albania and Montenegro
Publishing date: 16 August 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
PODGORICA, 16 August 2018 – Wrapping up his first visit to the region as the OSCE PA’s Special Representative on South East Europe today, Mark Pritchard (United Kingdom) underlined the Assembly’s continued commitment to engagement on democracy, the integrity of electoral processes, rule of law, stability and security, human rights, and media freedom. In Albania, he urged speedy completion of justice reform to ensure functioning judicial safeguards and called attention to the rise of nationalist forces in the region.
OSCE PA human rights leaders welcome end to state of emergency in Turkey, call for release of parliamentarians
Publishing date: 20 July 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 20 July 2018 – Following the end of a two-year state of emergency in Turkey earlier this week, the officers of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Chair Margareta Kiener-Nellen (MP, Switzerland), Vice-Chair Michael Georg Link (MP, Germany), and Rapporteur Kyriakos Hadjiyianni (MP, Cyprus) issued the following statement:
Journalists and politicians should work together in the interests of good journalism and democracy, says OSCE PA President at Tbilisi media conference
Publishing date: 19 July 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Media freedom and development
TBILISI, 19 July 2018 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli (Georgia) participated this week in the 15th annual South Caucasus Media Conference organized by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media in Tbilisi, Georgia...
OSCE parliamentarians address ethnic conflict prevention in Berlin seminar
Publishing date: 16 July 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BERLIN, 13 July 2018 – An OSCE Parliamentary Assembly seminar held this week in Berlin, Germany, focused on how to prevent ethnic conflicts through law and the exchange of best practice, notably through the protection of national minorities and accommodating ethnic diversity. The participants discussed in an informal setting the central role which parliamentarians could play in forming government policy towards national minorities and in promoting legislation that can protect the rights of national minorities.
In visit to Ukraine, Special Representative links gender equality to reform efforts
Publishing date: 16 July 2018
KYIV, 14 July 2018 – Concluding a two-day visit to Kyiv, the OSCE PA Special Representative on Gender Issues, Dr. Hedy Fry (MP, Canada) underlined the need for greater equality between women and men to fully exploit Ukraine’s reform agenda and conflict-resolution efforts.