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OSCE PA President meets Russian State Duma Chair Naryshkin in Moscow
Publishing date: 12 February 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 12 February 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) met today with Russian State Duma Chairperson Sergey Naryshkin in Moscow for talks that focused on Russia’s role in international efforts to resolve the crisis in and around Ukraine...
OSCE parliamentarians to observe upcoming elections in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 10 February 2015
COPENHAGEN, 10 February 2015 – OSCE parliamentarians will observe the upcoming parliamentary elections in Tajikistan and provide leadership for the OSCE's short-term observer mission...
OSCE PA President meets Verkhovna Rada Chair Groysman, Foreign Minister Klimkin in Kyiv
Publishing date: 9 February 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 6 February 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) met today with Verkhovna Rada Chairperson Volodymyr Groysman, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and other senior parliamentary and government officials in Kyiv for discussions that focused on the status of efforts to resolve the crisis in and around Ukraine.
Ukraine in focus, as OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and SMM Chief Monitor headline PA Winter Meeting
Publishing date: 5 February 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 5 February 2015 – The escalating crisis in and around Ukraine and the OSCE’s continuing efforts to help resolve it will be the focus of parliamentary debate and keynote presentations at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Winter Meeting, held on 18-20 February at the Hofburg Congress Centre in Vienna...
On Guantanamo visit, OSCE PA human rights leaders call for support to close facility, express concern regarding legal context
Publishing date: 29 January 2015
COPENHAGEN, 29 January 2015 – The leadership of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions has completed a visit to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and today called on OSCE countries to proactively assist the United States in efforts to close it as soon as possible, including through the resettlement of detainees...
OSCE PA human rights Chair welcomes Russian court decision not to close Memorial
Publishing date: 29 January 2015
COPENHAGEN, 29 January 2015-- The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today issued the following statement on the Russian Supreme Court’s rejection of a request by the Justice Ministry to close the human rights group Memorial:..
OSCE PA President calls on Russia to close border with Ukraine
Publishing date: 27 January 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
COPENHAGEN, 27 January 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) today called on Russia to close its international border with Ukraine to help counter the alarming increase in violence in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks...