12th Annual Session of the Parliamentary Assembly
When
5 July 2003 (All day)
Where
Rotterdam
(OSCE)OSCE Chairman-in-Office António Martins da Cruz (left), OSCE
Secretary General Jan Kubis and OSCE High Commissioner on
National Minorities, Rolf Ekeus (right) at the 11th Parliamentary
Assembly Annual Session, July 2002. (OSCE) Photo details
The 12th Annual Session of the Parliamentary Assembly brought together more than 300 parliamentarians from across the OSCE region.
The conference, whose theme was "The Role of the OSCE in the New Architecture of Europe", focused on the political, economic and human rights aspects of OSCE work. The Rotterdam Declaration was adopted on the last day of the conference, along with a number of other resolutions on themes such as combating anti-Semitism, prisoners detained at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, the International Criminal Court as well as on Belarus and Moldova.