Independent deputy Adrian Severin yesterday was elected by common consent the chairman of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly for a two-year mandate. His second year at the helm of the Parliamentary Assembly will overlap with Romania’s OSCE leadership.
Adrian Severin will chair the sessions of the Assembly and will represent it in the Ministerial Council and troika’s meetings and in the organisation’s summits. Severin stated that his election was a success for the South-Eastern European countries. He stressed that he would attempt to supervise the implementation of the resolutions concerning the Republic of Moldova and the situation of the Ilascu group, adopted during the session in Bucharest. Severin admitted though that the issue of Russian troops and heavy armament withdrawal from Dnestr until 2002, decided during the Istanbul summit last year, was a “political issue.” He pledged to work more closely with OSCE. “The Parliamentary Assembly has to become a forum of approval for all resolutions, actions and steps taken in the name of OSCE,” the official states. Adrian Severin was a Foreign minister over the period 1996-1997. Afterwards, he resigned from PD (Democrat Party) as well, following the scandal of the media spies list. He headed the Romanian delegation to OSCE. Despite misunderstandings with Democratic Party leader Petre Roman, his former superior, Severin announces that he is ready to work with him.