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In visit to frontline of migration crisis in Lesvos, OSCE PA members highlight need for co-ordinated response to migration
Publishing date: 4 May 2017
ATHENS, 4 May 2017 – Greece has taken important steps towards improving conditions in migrant and refugee camps, but the disproportionate responsibility it is assuming underlines the urgent need for a cohesive, balanced and co-ordinated response to migration, said members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on Migration today...
OSCE PA President Muttonen issues statement of condemnation and condolences for Stockholm attack
Publishing date: 7 April 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Countering terrorism
COPENHAGEN, 7 April 2017 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) responded to an apparent terrorist attack in Stockholm today with a statement of condemnation and condolences, expressing solidarity on behalf of the OSCE PA with the victims and the people of Sweden...
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Muttonen condemns metro bombing in St. Petersburg, offers condolences
Publishing date: 3 April 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Countering terrorism
COPENHAGEN, 3 April 2017 – Following an attack in St. Petersburg today that is being investigated by the Russian authorities as an act of terrorism, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s President, Austrian parliamentarian Christine Muttonen, offered condolences and strongly condemned the violence...
OSCE PA’s economic and environmental committee Chair alarmed by U.S. backsliding on climate policies
Publishing date: 29 March 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Environmental activities
COPENHAGEN, 29 March 2017 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s economic and environment committee Chair Nilza Sena (MP, Portugal) today expressed concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order Tuesday to ease restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. She emphasized that this represents a significant step backward in efforts to combat global warming, and stressed that all signatories to the Paris Agreement on climate change must respect the hard-fought compromises reached on emission reductions...
Conference in St. Petersburg highlights role of international parliamentary diplomacy in combating terrorism
Publishing date: 28 March 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Countering terrorism
ST. PETERSBURG, 28 March 2017 – The Parliamentary Conference on Combating International Terrorism, co-organized by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States, concluded today in St. Petersburg confirming the prominent role that international parliamentary diplomacy and co-operation can play in the fight against terrorism...
In bilateral meetings in St. Petersburg, President Muttonen builds inter-parliamentary dialogue on common challenges
Publishing date: 28 March 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Countering terrorism
ST. PETERSBURG, 27 March 2017 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (MP, Austria) today held a series of bilateral meetings in St. Petersburg ahead of the Parliamentary Conference on Combating International Terrorism, co-organized by the OSCE PA and Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which she is addressing on Tuesday...
Belarus must respect right to assemble, say chairs of OSCE PA human rights committee and hoc working group
Publishing date: 27 March 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 27 March 2017 – Belarusian authorities must respect principles of freedom of assembly in their handling of demonstrations, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee Chair Ignacio Sanchez Amor and Kent Harstedt, the Chair of the Assembly’s Ad Hoc Working Group on Belarus, said today in response to mass arrests of protesters that took place over the weekend. They further called for the release of those who are still in detention...