{"id":3458,"date":"2016-07-07T12:48:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2016-07-07T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:48:31","slug":"christine-muttonen-of-austria-elected-osce-pa-president-vice-presidents-and-committee-officers-also-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/?p=3458","title":{"rendered":"Christine Muttonen of Austria elected OSCE PA President, Vice-Presidents and Committee Officers also elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/27820452190_bf560ec2a3_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3461\" title=\"27820452190_bf560ec2a3_z\" src=\"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/27820452190_bf560ec2a3_z-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/27820452190_bf560ec2a3_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/27820452190_bf560ec2a3_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>TBILISI, 5 July 2016 \u2013 At the close of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly\u2019s 25th Annual Session in Tbilisi today, members of the Assembly elected Austrian parliamentarian Christine Muttonen as President. Muttonen has previously served as OSCE PA Vice-President and Special Representative for Central and Eastern Asia, and is Deputy Head of the Austrian Delegation to the PA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Upon being elected, Muttonen said that she would pursue direct talks with governments and other OSCE institutions on advancing avenues for closer co-operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParliamentarians can play a very important role in securing peace and stability,\u201d she said. \u201cIt will be my duty to make sure they have the possibility to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OSCE PA Vice-Presidents were also elected today: Vilija Aleknaite Abramikiene (Lithuania), Azay Guliyev (Azerbaijan), and Isabel Santos (Portugal) were elected to three-year terms, and Victor Dobre (Romania) was elected to a one-year term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TBILISI, 5 July 2016 \u2013 At the close of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly\u2019s 25th Annual Session in Tbilisi today, members of the Assembly elected Austrian parliamentarian Christine Muttonen as President. Muttonen has previously served as OSCE PA Vice-President and Special Representative for Central and Eastern Asia, and is Deputy Head of the Austrian Delegation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osze-pv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christine-muttonen.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}