OSCE Parliamentary Assembly elects Georgian MP as Democracy and Human Rights Committee Chair
By being elected to the position, Samkharadze, the Georgian Parliament’s OSCE Parliamentary Assembly delegation Head, also became a member of the Bureau of the Assembly, which serves as its main decision-making body.Photo: Parliament's press office.
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Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Georgian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Chair, was elected as the Chair of the Democracy and Human Rights Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe on Tuesday.
The election was part of the Assembly’s annual session in Birmingham, the press office of Georgian Parliament said while adding the Committee was “one of the most important formats” in the Assembly.
By being elected to the position, Samkharadze, the Georgian Parliament’s OSCE Parliamentary Assembly delegation Head, also became a member of the Bureau of the Assembly, which serves as its main decision-making body.
Samkharadze’s participation in the Assembly most recently involved his initiative on the body’s addition of a call for Russia to de-occupy Georgia’s Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions to a resolution on security environment and stability in the OSCE region on Monday.
The Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe has called on the Georgian political spectrum to work for more unity and more consolidation in the country, Nikoloz Samkharadze, the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) MP who chairs the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Wednesday following his meeting with Zbigniew Rau.
Zbigniew Rau, the Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Poland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, has extended his gratitude to Georgian authorities and citizens for their support for Ukraine, noting the OSCE commended the country’s “unconditional” support for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) MP who chairs the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Chairs of Foreign Relations Committees of the Parliaments of the European Union member states on Monday it was “crucial” the Union “demonstrates political will” and grants the country a candidate status.
An Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe resolution on security environment and stability in the OSCE region has called on Russia to de-occupy Georgia’s Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions, after the section was added to the document on the initiative of the Georgian Parliament’s OSCE Parliamentary Assembly delegation Head.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Georgian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee Chair on Thursday participated in the panel of the international conference Forum 2000 in Prague.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Georgian parliament's foreign affairs committee chair, on Wednesday reviewed the “difficult situation” in the Russian-occupied regions of Georgia and Russia's “provocative actions” on the sidelines of the Warsaw Security Forum.
Relations between Georgia and Poland, European perspective for Georgia and security issues in the Black Sea region were discussed on Tuesday in a meeting between a delegation of the Georgian parliament's foreign affairs committee and the Polish deputy foreign minister Marcin Przydacz.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Georgian Parliament, on Tuesday said a delegation from the lawmaking body had “practically received guarantees” from Italian and Maltese “top officials” of their backing for granting the European Union membership candidate status to Georgia in December.
The annual session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Wednesday called on Russia to end its occupation of Georgia’s Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions and engage constructively in the Geneva International Discussions.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Georgian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee Chair and the Head of the country’s Parliamentary Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, will participate in the snap presidential election of Azerbaijan on Wednesday.