OSCE PA President to visit Armenia March 10-12
14.02.2010 16:45 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ From March 10 to 12 this year, Chairman of the
Parliamentary Assembly of OSCE (OSCE PA) Joao Soares and OSCE PA
Special Representative on Nagorno Karabakh Goran Lennmarker will
arrive in Yerevan, Aram Safarian , secretary of the "Prosperous
Armenia" parliamentary group told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
According to Safaryan, on March 11 during his visit, the President of
the OSCE PA will take part in the meeting of the NATO Parliamentary
Assembly, which will be held at the National Assembly of Armenia.
During the visit Joao Soares will meet with RA President, the Speaker
of the Parliament of Armenia, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the
Armenian parliamentary delegation to OSCE PA, as well as
representatives of public organizations.
The OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) is the
world’s largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization. Its
mandate includes issues such as arms control, human rights, freedom of
the press and fair elections. Most of its 3,500-plus staff are engaged
in field operations, with only around 10% in its headquarters. The
OSCE is an ad hoc organization under the United Nations Charter (Chap.
VIII), and is concerned with early warning, conflict prevention,
crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation. Its 56
participating states are in Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and
North America and cover most of the northern hemisphere. It was
created during the Cold War era as an East-West forum.