Brussels, 07/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - The plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which now has 56 member states after the accession of Montenegro) ended in Brussels on 7 July with the closely-fought election of its new president. After the second round, Swedish Conservative Göran Lenmarker (Moderaterna) was elected by dozen votes ahead of his rival, Finnish Socialist Kimmo Kiljunen (the two MEPs know one another very well, having, in particular, been very active in the European Convention which drew up the draft EU Constitutional Treaty). In the first round, they each won 53 votes, ahead of Georgian parliamentarian Nino Burjanadze (28), former Bulgarian foreign minister Salomon Passy (28) and CDU MEP Willy Wimmer (16). Mr Lenmarker succeeds American Alcee Lommar Hastings. The Assembly also elected three Vice-Presidents (until 2009): American Democrat Benjamin Cardin, Portuguese Joao Soares and Swede Tone Tingsgard. A fourth Vice-President was elected for a mandate of roughly one year: Austrian Wolfgang Grossruck (ÖVP). The Chairs of the Assembly's three committees go to Monaco's Jean-Cahrles Gardetto (political affairs and security), Russian Leonid Ivanshenko (economic affairs, science, technology and environment) and Belgian Socialist Anne-Marie Lizin (democracy, human rights and humanitarian issues).