OSCE PA elects new president
OSLO - OSCE Parliamentary Assembly elected Petros Efthymiou of
Greece as the Assembly’s new president at its annual session in
Oslo on Saturday.
Efthymiou, who was OSCE PA Vice-President, beat Senator Consiglio
Di Nino of Canada by 130 votes to 64. He will succeed Joao Soares
of Portugal, who has served as Assembly’s President for two
one-year terms.
The Assembly also elected three new Vice-Presidents: Riccardo
Migliori (Italy), Alexander Kozlovskiy of Russia and Oleh Bilorus
of Ukraine.
The 19th Annual Session of the OSCE PA, which was attended by 250
parliamentarians, ended with the adoption of the Oslo Declaration.
The declaration contains a resolution which was adopted during the
annual session and spanned a wide range of issues, including the
situation in Kyrgyzstan, the Parliamentary Assembly’s involvement
in the OSCE Corfu Process, the peace process in the Middle East,
nuclear security, cyber-crime, the situation in the Arctic, as well
as the situation with investigative journalism and the death
penalty.
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