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- Study trips to the Assemblée nati<strong>on</strong>ale in Paris, the Chambre of Représentants de Belgique in<br />
Brussels and the Deutscher Bundestag in Berlin, organised by EWPPP and EAR. 169<br />
- Working visit of the chairpers<strong>on</strong>s and vice-chairpers<strong>on</strong>s of the Committee for Budget, Committee<br />
for Trade and Industry and Committee for Finance and Ec<strong>on</strong>omy of the Kosovo Assembly to<br />
Austrian Parliament, organized by Friedrich Naumann Stiftung. 170<br />
- Visits of the Kosovo parliamentary group to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly regi<strong>on</strong>al seminar<br />
and New Parliamentarians Programme by guest invitati<strong>on</strong> by NATO Parliamentary Assembly in coorganizati<strong>on</strong><br />
by OSCE missi<strong>on</strong> in Kosovo. 171 Visits of the Kosovo Assembly members to NATO<br />
Parliamentary Assembly have been much facilitated by the OSCE, because the latter “was looking<br />
into the inclusi<strong>on</strong> of Kosovo’s Assembly into parliamentary organizati<strong>on</strong>s and inter-parliamentary<br />
events taking into account that this was and somehow still is politically sensitive. This has been a<br />
development from traditi<strong>on</strong>al learning and working visits to more representati<strong>on</strong>al and inclusive<br />
participati<strong>on</strong> of Kosovo Assembly as members in inter-parliamentary instituti<strong>on</strong>s. 172<br />
- OSCE also facilitated and always accompanied Kosovo members of the Parliament to annual visits<br />
to the <strong>Europe</strong>an Parliament’s working visits to the informal joined working group the <strong>Europe</strong>an<br />
Parliament-the Assembly of Kosovo. Three of these annual meetings took place before the<br />
independence declarati<strong>on</strong> and they discussed general affairs in Kosovo, but also very much the<br />
development in the Parliament. The fourth <strong>on</strong>e took place after the independence declarati<strong>on</strong>. 173<br />
- A visit to Ljubljana by journalists covering the Kosovo Assembly, to observe RTV Slovenia and its<br />
coverage of the Slovene Parliament, co-organized by Teams <strong>on</strong> Media Support and Central<br />
Governance Support from the OSCE Department of Democratizati<strong>on</strong>. 174<br />
- Participati<strong>on</strong> of the Kosovo Assembly delegati<strong>on</strong> at the regi<strong>on</strong>al c<strong>on</strong>ference of Parliaments from<br />
South-East <strong>Europe</strong> with the help of OSCE missi<strong>on</strong>s from the regi<strong>on</strong>. 175<br />
- Participati<strong>on</strong> of a <strong>multi</strong>-party delegati<strong>on</strong> composed of members of all political parties – with the<br />
excepti<strong>on</strong> of Coaliti<strong>on</strong> Povratak (KP) – as well as an equal number of NGO representatives at the<br />
Seminar <strong>on</strong> Political Schools of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in Strasbourg, organized<br />
by the Council of <strong>Europe</strong>. 176<br />
- Participati<strong>on</strong> of a Kosovo Assembly delegati<strong>on</strong> of all six parliamentary groups in the regi<strong>on</strong>al<br />
parliamentary c<strong>on</strong>ference with civil society in Thessal<strong>on</strong>iki <strong>on</strong> “Legislatures and Citizens: Promoting<br />
EU Standards of Good Governance and Rule of Law at the Domestic and Regi<strong>on</strong>al Level”, a<br />
169 ASI newsletter (2005, no. 14), p. 11.<br />
170 ASI newsletter (2003, no. 9), p. 22.<br />
171 ASI newsletter (2005, no. 17), p. 7; ASI Newsletter (2007, no. 29), p. 16.<br />
172 Interview with Franklin de Vrieze.<br />
173 Interview with Franklin de Vrieze.<br />
174 ASI newsletter (2004, no. 10), p. 22<br />
175 ASI newsletter (2003, no. 9), pp. 10–12; ASI newsletter (2005, no. 18), pp. 4–5; ASI newsletter (2006, no. 25), p. 12; ASI<br />
newsletter (2007, no. 28), pp. 10–11.<br />
176 ASI newsletter (2003, no. 9), p. 23.<br />
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