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OSCE PAâ€™s Annual Session to take place in Oslo next week

29 June 2010 13:44 (UTC +04:00)

Upwards of 300 parliamentarians from the 56 OSCE participating States are expected to participate in the Session.

Over four days of deliberations, the Assemblyâ€™s three General Committees will consider resolutions dealing with various dimensions of the Sessionâ€™s theme, as well as 35 supplementary items covering topics such as climate change, the Middle East peace process, nuclear security, cybercrime and the situation in Kyrgyzstan. The Session will end with the adoption of the Oslo Final Declaration.

Featured speakers include JoÃ£o Soares, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly; Dag Terje Andersen, Speaker of the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget); Jonas Gahr StÃ¸re, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway; and Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Secretary General of the OSCE.

The Session will also elect new officers, including a new President. Joao Soares (Portugal) is stepping down as President after completing his two one-year terms. Assembly members Petros Efthymiou (Greece) and Consiglio Di Nino (Canada) have declared their candidacies to succeed President Soares.