Petros Efthymiou elected OSCE PA President

July 12, 2010 - 16:03 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Under the general theme of “Rule of Law: Combating Transnational Crime and Corruption,” the OSCE PA's 19th Annual Session took place from July 6 to 10 in Oslo. Hosted by the Parliament of Norway, the Storting, the Annual Session debated Resolutions dealing with various dimensions of the theme, as well as 35 Supplementary Items covering a wide range of topics.

The Session ended with the adoption of the Oslo Declaration and the election of Petros Efthymiou (Greece) as the Assembly’s new President. Mr. Efthymiou, who was a Vice-President in the Assembly, beat out Senator Consiglio Di Nino (Canada) by 130 votes to 64. The new President succeeds Joao Soares (Portugal) who has served as President for two one-year terms.

The Assembly also elected three new Vice-Presidents, Riccardo Migliori (Italy), Alexander Kozlovskiy (Russia) and Oleh Bilorus (Ukraine), while Isabel Pozuelo (Spain) was re-elected.

The Oslo Declaration contains the resolutions adopted during the Annual Session in Oslo, in which 250 parliamentarians participated. The Resolutions spanned a wide range of issues, from the situation in Kyrgyzstan to the Parliamentary Assembly’s involvement in the Corfu process, the peace process in the Middle East, nuclear security, cybercrime, the situation in the Arctic, the right of return of internally displaced persons, investigative journalism, and to the death penalty.

The three General Committees of the Assembly also elected new officers for the coming year. In the General Committee on Political Affairs and Security, Karl-George Wellmann (Germany) was elected chair, Canan Kalsin, Vice-Chair and Tonino Picula (Croatia) Rapporteur. In the General Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment, Roland Blum (France) Ivor Callely (Ireland) and Serhiy Shevchyuk (Ukraine) were all re-elected, and in the General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Walburga Habsburg Douglas (Sweden), Robert Aderholt (USA), and Matteo Mecacci (Italy) were all re-elected, the OSCE PA said on its website.

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