VIENNA, 10 June 2009 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will address the OSCE Annual Security Review Conference, to be held 23-24 June in Vienna. 

The meeting provides a framework for enhancing security dialogue and for reviewing security work undertaken by the OSCE and its 56 participating States.

The participants of the Conference will discuss how participating States have worked together to address common security matters and new ideas for strengthening co-operative and comprehensive security, including proposals on how to enhance European security.

In the various working sessions, participants will look at the OSCE's approach to early warning, conflict prevention and resolution, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation as well as arms control arrangements and confidence- and security-building measures in the OSCE area. The OSCE's comprehensive and co-operative approach to preventing and combating terrorism and related threats is another theme of the conference.

Minister Lavrov is set to speak during the opening session, which is open to journalists and is set to start at 10 a.m. on 23 June in the Hofburg Conference Centre's Neuer Saal. A news conference will follow in the Ratsaal on the fifth floor. The news conference will be held in Russian and interpreted into English.

Working sessions are closed to the media. Closing session speeches, set to start at 17:45 on 24 June in the Neuer Saal, are open to journalists.

For more information, please see the OSCE website: http://www.osce.org/conferences/asrc_2009.html

For admittance to the Hofburg Conference Centre, please bring your OSCE badge or a valid press card to the security desk (main entrance from the Heldenplatz). Parking is available for the press during the event in the OSCE-reserved parking area on Heldenplatz. Temporary parking permits must be collected from the security desk.