Created in 1991 at the Madrid Conference of Parliamentarians of the States Parties to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to implement the provisions of the Charter of Paris for new Europe 1990. Is an independent parliamentary structure. The tasks of the OSCE PA include assessing the fulfillment of the goals of the OSCE, discussing issues raised at summits and meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CMFA) of the OSCE, developing conflict prevention mechanisms, supporting democratic institutions in the participating States, and developing the institutions of the Organization.

The governing body of the OSCE PA is the Standing Committee, which manages its work between sessions and consists of members of the Bureau, heads of national delegations and chairmen of the general committees of the Assembly. The President of the OSCE PA is elected by secret ballot for a term of one year, with the right to re-election for another term. The President of the OSCE PA has 9 deputies, who are elected for a three-year term with the right to one re-election. The Chairman is vested with the right to appoint his representatives at the appropriate level. The OSCE PA Bureau consists of the President, Vice Chairs and the Treasurer. The Bureau is responsible for ensuring the implementation of the decisions of the Standing Committee and the effective functioning of the Assembly between meetings of the Standing Committee.

OSCE PA President elected by secret ballot for 1 year and can be re-elected only once. The Chairman has 9 deputies. Since July 2018, the President of the OSCE PA has been Georgy Tsereteli(Georgia).

OSCE PA Secretary General elected by the Standing Committee at the proposal of the Bureau for a term of 5 years by a two-thirds majority of the votes cast by secret ballot. The appointment may be renewed twice by a majority vote of the Standing Committee. From January 2016 General Secretary The OSCE PA is Roberto Montella(Italy). The OSCE PA International Secretariat is located in Copenhagen and performs administrative and organizational functions. In February 2003, the OSCE PA office opened in Vienna. It is chaired by Ambassador Andreas Notelle (Germany).

parliamentary assembly meets three times a year: at annual sessions, as well as autumn and winter meetings. Annual sessions are held on a rotation basis in one of the participating States, during which resolutions are adopted that are advisory in nature and are not binding on the governments of the participating States. They also elect the Chairman of the Assembly and his 9 deputies. Winter sessions are held in Vienna to summarize the work of the previous year and determine the guidelines for the work of the Assembly on this year. The autumn sessions are conferences of parliamentarians dedicated to 1-2 of the most pressing issues in the OSCE region.

In addition, the Assembly holds seminars, conferences and inter-parliamentary forums on specific topics or individual regions. The Mediterranean forum usually takes place on the sidelines of the autumn sessions.

The work of the OSCE PA sessions consists of plenary meetings, meetings of the Standing Committee and three General Committees, the topics of which correspond to the three "baskets" of the OSCE: political affairs and security; economic, scientific, technical and environmental issues; issues of democracy, human rights and humanitarian issues.

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly actively monitors elections in the Organization's member states. The OSCE PA cooperates with parliamentary organizations: IPU, IPA CIS, NATO PA, PACE. Together with PACE, the European Parliament and the NATO PA, the so-called. joint international election observation missions.

As part of the Assembly 323 parliamentarians from 57 states: Austria, Azerbaijan, Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vatican , Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Georgia, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Kazakhstan, Canada, Cyprus, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia /since 1990/, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, USA, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Finland, France, Croatia, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia .

The Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation is represented by a delegation of 15 people (5 from the Federation Council and 10 from State Duma). Since January 2017, the head of the Russian delegation to the OSCE PA has been Deputy Chairman of the State Duma P.O. Tolstoy, his deputy is First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs V.M. Dzhabarov.

The delegation of the Federation Council includes:

- Dzhabarov Vladimir Mikhailovich- First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, head of the delegation

- Zhuravlev Nikolai Andreevich- First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Budget and Financial Markets

- Mamedov Sergey Valerievich- Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Rules and Organization of Parliamentary Activities

- Gekht Irina Alfredovna- Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Agrarian and Food Policy and Environmental Management

- Narusova Lyudmila Borisovna- Member of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building

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REFERENCE INFORMATION

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) was established at the Madrid Conference of Parliamentarians of the CSCE Participating States (April 2-3, 1991) in the framework of the implementation of the relevant provisions of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, adopted in 1990.

The Assembly is an independent parliamentary structure that discusses a range of issues within the competence of the OSCE and adopts resolutions and recommendations on them that are not binding on the governments of the participating States.

Sessions of the Assembly (up to 5 days) are held annually on a rotating basis in one of the OSCE participating States, usually in the first ten days of July. The first session was held July 3-5, 1992 in Budapest, the second - July 6-9, 1993 in Helsinki, the third - July 5-8, 1994 in Vienna, the fourth - July 4-8, 1995 in Ottawa, the fifth July 5-9, 1996 in Stockholm, the sixth - July 5-9, 1997 in Warsaw, the seventh - July 7-10, 1998 in Copenhagen, the last, eighth session of the OSCE PA was held on Petersburg. The ninth session will be held in Bucharest on 8-10 July 2000.

The work of the OSCE PA sessions takes place in three general committees (on political affairs and security; on economic affairs, science, technology and environment; as well as on democracy, human rights and humanitarian issues) and in plenary sessions.

Helle Dein (Denmark) was elected President of the OSCE PA at the Copenhagen session (re-elected at the session in St. Petersburg). She has nine deputies: G.N. Seleznev from the Russian Federation (until the end of the 2000 session).

The Chairman, his deputies and the treasurer (the budget of the Assembly is determined separately from the main budget of the OSCE) form the Bureau of the OSCE PA.

Bureau members, heads of national delegations and chairmen of the general committees of the Assembly form the Standing Committee of the OSCE PA.

On the proposal of the Bureau, the Standing Committee appoints Secretary General OSCE PA. R. Spencer Oliver (USA) has been the Secretary General of the OSCE PA since September 1992. At the session in St. Petersburg, a decision was made to extend the term of his tenure in this position for another 5 years.

The OSCE PA Secretariat is located in Copenhagen.

The OSCE PA currently consists of 315 parliamentarians. The distribution of places is carried out in accordance with the approved scale, according to which 17 places have the USA, 15 - Russia, 13 each - Germany, France, Italy and the UK, then descending to two places for countries such as San Marino and Liechtenstein. The Vatican sends two representatives to the Assembly with special guest status.

The OSCE PA maintains close ties with other inter-parliamentary organizations, including Interparliamentary Assembly CIS.

BERLIN, 11 July. /TASS/. The head of the Russian delegation at the session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA), Vice Speaker of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy, said that Russian parliamentarians left the meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Berlin on Wednesday due to a gross violation of the rules when considering anti-Russian resolutions.

Vladimir Dzhabarov, the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, called these violations political cheating on the part of the Ukrainian delegation and the chairman of the assembly, and State Duma deputy Artem Turov called a farce.

Earlier, the delegation of the Russian Federation announced a violation of the rules when considering two anti-Russian resolutions at a session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Berlin and demanded to postpone voting on these documents, which were submitted to a meeting in which Ukrainian parliamentarians did not participate, who put their signatures under them and did not notify the head of the assembly in writing about his absence.

Nevertheless, the resolutions were adopted without the Russian parliamentarians and included in the final declaration of the session, in which they also did not take part in voting.

Violation of the regulations

"The Russian delegation believes that the absence of a number of deputies who sponsored resolutions directed against our country was not properly documented, as provided for by the regulations. In a mocking manner, Mr. [Georgian representative] Tsereteli told us that he could be notified by post dove, with the help of instant messengers, and so on about the absence of deputies. We do not think so, this is a gross violation of the regulations, it calls into question the meaning and number of legitimate signatures under the resolution. The Russian delegation will not allow itself and the Russian Federation to be insulted with the help of such pseudo-regulation tricks that it allows Mr. Tsereteli," Tolstoy told reporters on Wednesday.

"Only one of the resolutions lacks three or maybe five signatures. Thus, they are not enough for automatic adoption," the head of the Russian delegation stated.

"When we drew the chairman's attention to this inconsistency, he [Tsereteli] considered it possible to perceive our claim under the rules as some kind of good advice and tried to continue the meeting," the deputy said.

"We believe that this is a gross violation of the OSCE PA regulations and a mockery of common sense," the politician stressed. "The Russian delegation is against the consideration of this resolution and the next one, concerning the Russian Crimea and the Russian city of Sevastopol. We believe that in this case the rules of procedure of our assembly have been violated," Tolstoy said. "The absence of deputies who signed these resolutions and made unfounded accusations against my country is a violation of the rules of procedure of our assembly," he repeated.

"It is unlikely that any of you will agree that we should all be present here, but there are individual deputies who have Mr. meeting," Tolstoy continued. He recalled that "there is a regulation that says that a member of the assembly must, in case of his absence, properly notify the chairman." "Not by mobile phone, but in writing," the head of the Russian delegation emphasized. "In this regard, the delegation of the Russian Federation categorically objects to the inclusion in the final declaration of the [signatures] of Mrs. [Swedish deputy Margareta] Söderfelt and Mr. [head of the Ukrainian delegation Artur] Gerasimov, who are absent from today's session," he concluded.

Last straw

In turn, a member of the Russian delegation, State Duma deputy Nikolai Ryzhak said that "this was the last straw, because the documents that were submitted for consideration are deeply politicized and directed against the interests of Russia."

"Our long patience has come to an end," he said. "We can no longer participate in this political farce. Measures must be taken to review the order of the sessions."

OSCE PA speaker's opinion

For his part, the speaker of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Georgy Tsereteli, who was re-elected to this position on Wednesday, claims that all signatures under the resolution "remain in force." “Even if we didn’t receive a written refusal to come here, nevertheless, there is an opportunity to send a number of different messages and messages. Maybe instruct the Ukrainian delegation to clarify this situation, but I think we can discuss this for at least an hour,” he said. he.

Tsereteli pointed out that, in accordance with the regulations, “in the event that a member of the delegation has registered but is unable to attend the annual session due to insurmountable obligations, his or her signatures remain valid provided that the PA chairman has been duly notified of this by the head of delegations." “Here, nowhere is it explained what “appropriately” means: maybe the dove will bring this letter, sorry for the joke, you can notify in writing, by messenger, by e-mail,” he added.

"I myself believe, our experts believe that the information was appropriately brought [to the attention]. If we find out what "appropriately notified" means, then we will not get anywhere," Tsereteli concluded.

Anti-Russian resolutions

One of the resolutions with anti-Russian content was introduced by the Ukrainian delegation. The document is dedicated to "violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms" in Crimea. It consists of 17 demands, including a call to stop "the eradication of education in the Ukrainian language and to cancel the decision to declare the "Mejlis [of the Crimean Tatar people]" an extremist organization" (the organization is banned in the Russian Federation). The authors also demanded the creation of "favorable conditions" for the independent work of journalists, human rights activists and lawyers.

The resolution, which was introduced by the Swedish delegation, calls on Russia to pass laws "aimed at combating hate crimes" and ensure a fair trial in accordance with the guarantees of the European Convention on Human Rights. Swedish deputy Margareta Sederfelt, who prepared the draft, asks the Russian Federation to release all those who were detained for the "peaceful exercise of the rights to freedom of expression and assembly."

Another resolution concerning the approaching 10th anniversary of the events in South Ossetia was introduced by Georgia. Chairperson of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Georgian Parliament Sofiko Katsarava, who prepared the document, calls for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in accordance with international law and the Helsinki principles, as well as for the full implementation of the ceasefire agreement of August 12, 2008.