In 2011, officials from YAP submitted a letter to OSCE which included the statement, " The OSCE fact-finding mission report released last year also found that some 15, 000 Armenians have been illegally settled on Azerbaijan's occupied territories.

On 16 January 1999, OSCE monitors found the bodies of 45 people in and around the village in what became widely known as the Račak massacre.

According to the ICTY, OSCE, and international human rights organizations, about 75 % of the population was forcibly expelled from the town by Serbian police and paramilitaries as well as Yugoslav forces, while many civilians were killed in the process.

For instance, it claims it denounced human rights abuses committed in Georgia while these were ignored by the OSCE and the Council of Europe.

The OSCE has criticized the BHHRG for letting its journalists pose as impartial election monitors while publishing partisan polemics in newspapers, and for relying on short-term observer missions with a handful of people, an approach the OSCE abandoned as open to manipulation in 1996.

An OSCE spokesman said its small election monitoring team observed no obvious electoral fraud, and that the election, while not perfect, was excellent by regional standards and that it is " pretty clear " the results reflected the views of the Algerian people.

he was again a member of the Finnish parliament for a short while, after Eva Biaudet resigned to take a position at the OSCE.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), the European Union, and the United States backed the legislation, while Russia opposed it.

In 2000, some moderately positive developments toward the implementation of recommendations made by the OSCE AMG were observed but were not sufficient in the realm of access to fair and free elections.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ) reported that the elections failed to comply with commitments to free and fair elections and hence were invalid.

With the full backing of the United States, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ) reported that the elections failed to comply with commitments to free and fair elections and hence were invalid.

OSCE and COE observers pronounced the elections free and fair, and turnout averaged about 60 %.

OSCE mission monitoring the 2006 parliamentary elections mentioned that

Göran Lennmarker, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), said that the elections " failed to meet many of the commitments and standards that we have.

In 2007 the OSCE was prevented from monitoring the legislative elections held in December.

“ The Russian Federation has created limitations that are not conducive to undertaking election observation .” The OSCE has also withdrawn its attempts to monitor the elections.

* OSCE reports on elections in Russia

In response to the OSCE / ODIHR Preliminary Report, the IDEE observers, who observed more than 1, 000 voting precincts and Constituency Election Centers where votes were tabulated, collectively issued a " Votum Separatum ," which expressed their outrage at the election fraud, intimidation and political repression they witnessed during their observation mission and their disagreement with the OSCE's mild preliminary report calling the elections " generally well administered.

" These elections have, regrettably, been insufficient to enhance the credibility of either the electoral or the democratic process ," said Bruce George, special co-ordinator of the OSCE chairman-in-office.

* Monitoring the conduct of elections in OSCE member states.

* proving that elections in Belarus " met democratic standards ", unlike the OSCE that could not back up its contrary claim, because it did not – in fact – observe the elections.

A preliminary report by observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ) praised the conduct of the elections.

The Georgian authorities have seized the opportunity, since the 4 January presidential election, to further bring Georgia's election process in closer alignment with European standards for democratic elections, including OSCE commitments and Council of Europe standards ," the report said.

These elections fell according to the OSCE / ODIHR Election Observation Mission significantly short of OSCE commitments.

According to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), Algerian elections are generally free and fair.

* OSCE reports on Latvian elections

Yet, the OSCE gave a report on your last elections, on the observation of the elections, which said they failed to meet international standards for genuine elections in many important points.

The legal code was modified to comply with the obligations of Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ) and to expunge the Marxist-Leninist legal theory.

OSCE experts estimate that between 116, 000 and 147, 000 people left Armenia for economic reasons between 2002 and 2004, with two-thirds of them returning home by February 2005.

After the War of Transnistria, Moldova had sought a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the Transnistria region by working with Romania, Ukraine, and Russia, calling for international mediation, and cooperating with the OSCE and UN fact-finding and observer missions.

Russia continues to maintain military presence in the Transnistrian region of Moldova, despite previous agreements with Moldova and within OSCE and CAF to withdraw its troops and ammunition.

In response to the resolution, the Russian lawmakers threatened the OSCE with " harsh consequences ".

* The conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference — Report by rapporteur David Atkinson presented to Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

B ' nai B ' rith also has worked extensively with officials in the State Department, in Congress, and in foreign governments to support the efforts of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ) to combat anti-Semitism.

He is currently the leader of the British Delegation to the OSCE, which deals with a wide-range of security related issues such as democratisation, election monitoring, human rights, arms control, economic and environmental security and security building.

( The OSCE now uses large-scale long-term missions of four to six weeks with dozens of experts and hundreds of observers.

*: On September 3, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the following statement: " In Russia, which is the co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, received reports with deep concern regarding the clemency of Baku Azeri serviceman Ramil Safarov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the commission of the murder of an Armenian officer with an extreme atrocity in Hungary in the 2004, as well as regarding the preceded decision of the Hungarian authorities to extradite him to Azerbaijan.

The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( CSCE ), also known as the U. S. Helsinki Commission, is an independent U. S. Government agency created by Congress in 1976 to monitor and encourage compliance with the Helsinki Final Act and other Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ) commitments.

Members of the Commission have regular contact with parliamentarians, government officials, NGOs, and private individuals from other OSCE participating states.

The Commission convenes public hearings and briefings with expert witnesses on OSCE-related issues ; issues public reports concerning implementation of OSCE commitments in participating States ; publishes a periodic Digest with up-to-date information on OSCE developments and Commission activities ; and organizes official delegations to participating States and OSCE meetings to address and assess democratic, economic, and human rights developments firsthand.

* The US Mission to the OSCE warned of Violation of freedom of religion and encouraged the authorities to apply the law fairly, advising the government should avoid involving in religious disputes, reminding that Article Nine of the European Convention on Human Rights and Article 19 of the Macedonian Constitution as well as Macedonia ’ s OSCE commitments, and international norms, all guarantee his right to freedom of religion.

* OSCE-Kyrgyz elections competitive but fell short of OSCE commitments in important areas * Kyrgyz National News Agency ( state-owned )

These elections fell according to the OSCE / ODIHR Election Observation Mission significantly short of OSCE commitments.

These elections fell according to the OSCE / ODIHR Election Observation Mission significantly short of OSCE commitments.

These elections fell according to the OSCE / ODIHR Election Observation Mission significantly short of OSCE commitments.

These elections fell according to the OSCE / ODIHR Election Observation Mission significantly short of OSCE commitments.

These elections fell according to the OSCE / ODIHR Election Observation Mission significantly short of OSCE commitments.

The OSCE declared the process as " tangible progress toward meeting OSCE and other international commitments " in its internet press release the following day.