COPENHAGEN, 5 May 2015 – The Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), today addressed government representatives from the OSCE’s 57 participating States in Vienna, urging robust action and an end to “business as usual” on issues ranging from migrants and refugees to prisoners of conscience to the Guantanamo detention facility to the situation in occupied Crimea.
In a wide-ranging keynote address to the Human Dimension Committee of the OSCE’s Permanent Council, Santos cited the Council’s reliance on consensus voting and the OSCE’s inability to agree on a legal …read more
Source: OSCE