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From 19 – 20 February 2009, five Canadian parliamentarians attended the Winter Meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE in Vienna, Austria. The Honourable Senator Consiglio Di Nino led the delegation, which included the Honourable Senator Jerahmiel Grafstein, Mr. David Tilson, Member of Parliament and President of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association, Mr. Dean Allison, Member ...

The Regional Trade Workshop in Mexico City was the sixth such event presented by FIPA and the first to incorporate a hemisphere-wide focus since the inaugural Trade Knowledge Workshop, held in Ottawa in March 2007. Attendance at the Mexico City workshop was high and reflected the growing recognition within the hemisphere of the value of these workshops to parliamentarians. While 16 ...

Report of the Canadian Parliamentary Delegation respecting its participation at the Sub-Committee on Transatlantic Relations

The IPU Assembly is the principal statutory body that expresses the views of the Inter-Parliamentary Union on political issues. Twice a year it brings together parliamentarians to study international problems and make recommendations for action. The agenda for the 119 th IPU Assembly, which took place in Geneva, Switzerland between 13 and 15 October 2008, a ddressed the following items: o ...

From 19 – 20 February 2009, five Canadian parliamentarians attended the Winter Meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE in Vienna, Austria. The Honourable Senator Consiglio Di Nino led the delegation, which included the Honourable Senator Jerahmiel Grafstein, Mr. David Tilson, Member of Parliament and President of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association, Mr. Dean Allison, Member ...

ParlAmericas held its 30th Meeting of the Board of Directors in the city of Medellin, Colombia. Participants expressed gratitude to the host, Mr. German Blanco, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, for the hospitality shown to them in Medellin. Mr. Randy Hoback, M.P. led a delegation representing the Canadian Section of ParlAmericas, which also included the Hon. Michael L. MacDonald, accompanied ...

The OSCE’s 2013 budget was €144,822,600 million, a decrease from the 2012 budget of €3.23 million. Approximately 62% of the OSCE’s budget was dedicated to 17 field missions and other field activities in South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. In 2013, the OSCE employed approximately 2,570 individuals, the vast majority of whom were assigned to field ...

Established in 1975 as the “Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe” (CSCE), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was given its current name at the Budapest Summit in December 1994. The OSCE participating countries, currently 57 in number, include all of the countries of Europe, the United States and Canada, as well as the states that made up the former ...

The Honourable Bryon Wilfert, P.C., M.P., Co-Chair of the Canada-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Group (CJIG), conducted the CJIG annual Co-Chair’s visit to Tokyo (Japan) from April 21 to 25, 2008. The primary purpose of the visit was to build upon the 15 th Annual Bilateral Meeting of Canadian parliamentarians and Diet members held in Canada in August 2007 as well as to discuss the parameters for ...

The context was characterized by the illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula by the Russian Federation, the ongoing hostilities in the east of the country, and the continued de facto control of parts of the territory by illegal armed groups.