OSCE PA Special Representative notes recent progress, challenges in Balkans
COPENHAGEN, 7 September 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Vice-President and Special Representative on South East Europe Roberto Battelli (MP, Slovenia) today welcomed important progress made over the summer months in the Balkans, while urging continued work on regional challenges. Battelli highlighted the agreements between Belgrade and...
OSCE training in Ukraine focuses on detecting forged travel documents
CHERKASY, 7 September 2015 – An advanced training course for Ukrainian border control officers aimed at increasing their practical abilities to detect forged travel documents started today in Cherkasy. These two back-to-back one-week intensive training courses are designed to update and sharpen the skills of 42 border control officers in...
OSCE PA President condemns attacks in Tajikistan
COPENHAGEN, 5 September 2015 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ilkka Kanerva (MP, Finland) today issued the following statement on the 4 September gun attacks in and around Dushanbe, Tajikistan: “I condemn in the strongest terms the attacks in Tajikistan, which apparently targeted police and other personnel. Such senseless violence...
Putin Brings No Bacon Home From Beijing
China’s economic woes put dampers on bilateral business dealings. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Why Park Geun Hye attended China’s World War Two military parade
Last week, South Korean President Park Geun Hye attended the military parade for China’s 70th anniversary commemoration of the end of World War Two. Officially billed as a celebration of fascism’s defeat, it looked like anything but. More than one analyst noted the obvious incongruence of observing fascism’s end with a giant...
‘Refugees’ Arrive in Munich, Hungary Demonized: What’s The Endgame?
Watching live footage of the “refugees” arriving in Munich, it is difficult not to be struck by how non refugee-like they look. Many are well shod in expensive-looking western sneakers, wearing Adidas and other western name-brand clothing, fingering their smart phones. Mostly men of, as they, fighting age. What few women we do see...
Video: Limiting Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons
The U.S.-Russian relationship may be facing challenges as significant as those confronted during the darkest days of the Cold War. From Russia’s actions in Crimea to disputes regarding the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and ballistic missile defense, the imposition of sanctions on Russia and a surge in military incidents in...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 3 September 2015
This report is for the media and the general public. The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by the parties and security considerations*. The SMM observed one explosion in Donetsk region and recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region....
False Flag Alert on Refugee ‘Crisis’?
In the past week, the flood of undocumented and unregistered Middle Eastern and African migrants into the EU has become an inundation. The high water mark of the human tide is located in Hungary, which is not a logical outcome despite the country’s geographical position at the center of Europe. Understanding why is the key to understanding...
Reform #1. Why Ukraine has to reform its gas sector
In April 2015, the Ukrainian parliament passed a long-awaited law on the gas sector which paves the way for the extremely difficult process of reforming and de-monopolising the Ukrainian gas sector. The law will come into force on 1 October 2015 and involves the break-up of the state-owned company Naftogaz, the current monopolist, and the gradual...
