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Side event at OSCE Parliamentary Assembly meeting in Oslo

The NGO coalition of Freedom House, Global Witness, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Eurasian Democracy Initiative is organising a lunch time event in the vicinity of the OSCE PA meeting in Oslo this Thursday.

Published: July 7, 2010

When: Thursday, 8. July 2010 13:00 – 14:30
Where: Oslo, “Internasjonalen” at Youngstorget
Host: Norwegian helsinki Committee
More info: www.nhc.no/php/index.php?module=article&view=985

The event will address the scourge of corruption and its corrosive effect on governance across Eurasia and engage in a frank discussion about how corruption undermines the very concepts that the OSCE was initially conceived to advance and what parliamentarians from its 56-nation membership might do to counter these trends.

There will also be a debate on the performance of Kazakhstan as chairman of the organization in 2010.

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