This summer the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act. The jubilee session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly was held in Finland's capital in early July, but the festivities turned pretty sour since Finland banned the entry of several members of the Russian delegation and Moscow refused to attend amidst the Russia-West relationship ...
... Manager Natalia Yevtikhevich.
The report and key project conclusions were submitted on July 6 at the Plenary Session of the OSCE PA 24th Annual Session devoted to the 40th anniversary to the signature of the Helsinki Final Act and opened by the president ... ... visas under the EU sanctions. Participation of delegations and reasonable sanction limits were also a matter of discussion.
Helsinki +40 Project presentation of results - FIIA, Helsinki, 5 July 2015
Annual Session, Helsinki, 5-9 July 2015
... The danger here is that almost all of the fundamental principles, the Decalogue of principles in the Helsinki Final Act have been violated by what has occurred in Crimea and in Eastern Ukraine. And so, the question now is: can the OSCE survive this?
OSCE PA and RIAC finalize programme for
first Helsinki +40 seminar
So, can the OSCE survive? There have been numerous discussions about the need for reforming and strengthening the OSCE. What processes are going in the organization now? Are there any ongoing changes in structure, mandate, and decision-making ...
... General Spencer Oliver, Deputy Secretary General Semyon Dzakhaev, and Communications Director Richard Solash visited the office of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in Moscow on Wednesday to finalize logistics for the first seminar of the OSCE PA’s Helsinki +40 Project, to be hosted by RIAC in the Russian capital on 25 September. Representing RIAC in the meeting were Programme Co-ordinator Alexander Eliseev, Programme Director Ivan Timofeev, Programme Manager Natalia Evtikhevich, and Media and Government ...
On May 8, 2014 Stockholm hosted a meeting of participants of
Helisnki+40 project
aimed to draw up a new agenda for the OSCE that is to mark its 40-year anniversary in 2015.
Sponsored by the
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
, the project is carried out by the Russian International Affairs Council,
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
and
German Marshall Fund of the United States
.
The Stockholm session was attended by RIAC Program ...