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Vilnius to host 18th Session of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

17 June 2009 15:12 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Viktoria Dementieva â€“ APA. The 18th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will be held in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius on 29 June 3 July, APA reports quoting the press service of OSCE PA. Meeting for the first time in a Baltic country, over 250 Members of Parliaments from 49 OSCE countries are expected to participate in the Session, whose main theme is "The OSCE: Addressing New Security Challenges."
Promotion of human rights and civil liberties in the OSCE area, energy security and cooperation, labour migration, how to strengthen OSCE engagement on freedom of opinion and expression, water management, climate change, abolition of the death penalty, arms control will be discussed at the conference.
Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Joao Soares, Foreign Minister of Greece, and Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE
Dora Bakoyannis, resident of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Lluis Maria De Puig, OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut will address the conference. The Annual Session will adopt a final document, called the Vilnius Declaration.