OSCE’s high-level Annual Security Review Conference in Vienna to discuss European security under the motto “Dialogue, ownership and responsibility”

VIENNA, 21 June 2018 – The 2018 Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC), organized by the Italian OSCE Chairmanship, will take place from 26 to 28 June 2018 in Vienna, under the motto “Dialogue, ownership and responsibility to foster security in the OSCE area”.

This annual high-level OSCE conference provides a forum for a deep and wide-ranging discussion on current security threats and challenges for Europe and the role of the OSCE in successfully addressing them.

The opening session in the morning of 26 June 2016 will be addressed by Italian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Guglielmo Picchi. Other keynote speakers at the opening session will be: OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger, Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Grushko and European External Action Service Managing Director Thomas Mayr Harting. A video address by UN Under-Secretary General Rosemary DiCarlo will also be delivered.

Journalists are invited to follow the addresses of the opening session from 9:30 to 10:30 on Tuesday, 26 June, at the Hofburg Conference Centre's Neuer Saal.

Media interested in attending the opening session should register by e-mail to press@osce.org, by 17:00, Monday, 25 June. 

The opening address will be streamed live.  

Further information and the agenda are available here.