Secretariat

Media advisory

OSCE Annual Security Review Conference to open in Vienna on 14 June

VIENNA, 9 June 2010 - The OSCE Annual Security Review Conference, which aims to enhance the dialogue on security among the Organization's 56 participating States, will open in Vienna on Monday, 14 June.

The three-day meeting provides a framework for reviewing security work undertaken by the OSCE and its 56 participating States.

The working sessions will focus on transnational threats and challenges; the role of the OSCE in early warning, conflict prevention and resolution, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation; the role and perspectives of arms control and confidence- and security-building regimes in building trust in the evolving security environment; threats and challenges stemming from the territory of Afghanistan and the OSCE's contribution to stability in the region; and a review of OSCE police-related activities.

Konstantin Zhigalov, Kazakhstan's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, will give the opening address.

Journalists are invited to attend the opening session starting at 10.00, on Monday, 14 June, in the Hofburg Congress Centre's Neuer Saal.

The closing session at 17.30, on Wednesday, 16 June, will also be open to the press.