VIENNA, 10 July 2013 – Representatives from the 57 OSCE participating States, civil society and international organizations will meet in Vienna tomorrow for a two-day conference on the rule of law as a cornerstone of human rights protection.
The participants at the meeting, which has been organized jointly by the Ukrainian 2013 OSCE Chairmanship and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), will identify challenges faced by the Organization’s participating States and discuss how they can be addressed effectively while ensuring the full protection of human rights in line with OSCE commitments.
Ambassador Ihor Prokopchuk, the Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council and Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE, and Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the ODIHR Director, will make opening remarks.
The keynote speaker at the meeting will be Tsog Log, Vice-Chairman and Member of the Mongolian parliament.
The agenda and further information is available at: www.osce.org/event/shdm_2013
Journalists are invited to attend the opening session of the conference from 15:00 to 16:00 on 11 July 2013 in the Neuer Saal of the Hofburg Congress Centre.
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