COPENHAGEN, 28 April 2015 – The OSCE’s lack of a clear, international legal status and the challenges that result for its personnel, particularly during crisis situations, was the topic of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s latest Helsinki +40 seminar, held on 27 April in Copenhagen.
Participants in the event, including diplomats, legal experts and leading OSCE parliamentarians, noted that the situation in Ukraine, and the problems faced by the Organization in trying to respond rapidly, had brought the long-simmering problem to the fore: The question of granting a legally binding character to the Organization must be tackled once and for all …read more
Source: OSCE
