 Kiljunen was a member and vice-chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly and led election observation missions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.In 2010, he was in charge of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry into the Events in southern Kyrgyzstan, established after the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Roza Otunbayeva asked him, as Special Representative for Central Asia of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, to coordinate the process to establish it.After broad consultation the terms of reference were established and endorsed.