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By Nazrin Gadimova

The government of Georgia is working on strengthening OSCE role in the country, Parliamentary Chairman Davit Usupashvili told journalists.

"The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is meeting in Istanbul," Davit Usupashvili said. "Several important resolutions are planning to adopt. Our delegation took part in preparing those resolutions. The leadership of the Parliamentary Assembly will be elected at the meeting. We have our favorite candidates. We want the OSCE role to be strengthened in Georgia. As you know its efforts weaken because of Russia,"

According to Usupashvili, no concrete form or mechanism has been devised yet to regulate the above-mentioned issue.

"However, we are working on this issue," Usupashvili said.

The 22nd Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is being held in Istanbul, Turkey from 29 June to 3 July 2013.

According to the draft resolution of the Committee of Political Affairs and Security, the Parliamentary Assembly calls for intensified efforts towards generating a peaceful and viable solution to the un-resolved conflicts, and urges the OSCE Chairmanship to redouble efforts to find solutions to the tragic protracted conflicts in the Caucasus and Moldova.

"In this connection, the Parliamentary Assembly repeatedly recommends to re-establish a meaningful OSCE presence in Georgia, and to maintain and strengthen the OSCE Offices in Baku and Yerevan, as well as the OSCE Mission in Moldova," the resolution says.

According to the document, the Parliamentary Assembly supports the Geneva Process to find solutions to the consequences of the 2008 war in Georgia, welcomes the decrease of security related incidents and the work of the Ergneti Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism, and urges the OSCE to continue its work on confidence- and security-building measures in Georgia.