Kazinform, Kazakhstan
July 1 2005

Washington to welcome jubilee session of OSCE PA

ASTANA. July 1. KAZINFORM. 14 session of the OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly has started its work in Washington. Parliamentary delegation
of Kazakhstan is led by chair of the Senate committee for
international affairs, defense and security Zhabaikhan Abdildin.

The current session is considered to be the jubilee one for Helsinki
act on cooperation and security in Europe has been signed 30 years
ago.

The agenda comprises consideration of OSCE actual issues, including
gender equality, regulation of situation in Nagorny Karabakh,
Abkhazia, and human traffic.

One of the key points is an elevation of efficiency of the
organization in future on the ground of recommendations of the OSCE
Council of honorable persons where enters the chair of the Kazakhstan
Senate committee for social and cultural development Kuanysh
Sultanov.

More than 300 parliamentarians of 55 OSCE member states, European
countries, US and Canada are taking part in it.