18th Winter Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) will hold its 18th Winter Meeting at the Hofburg Conference Centre in Vienna on 21 and 22 February 2019, featuring speeches by

• President of the Austrian National Council Wolfgang Sobotka,
• OSCE PA President George Tsereteli,
• OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Slovakia’s Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák,
• OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger, and others.

The OSCE PA’s general committees will meet to hear from government representatives of OSCE participating States and discuss matters related to political and security affairs, economics and the environment, and human rights and humanitarian questions. Members will hold debates on issues such as restrictions on human rights during emergencies; fighting corruption, money laundering and the financing of terrorism; and how to best leverage the tools and mechanisms of the OSCE to resolve protracted conflicts.

The closing joint session of the general committees will feature reports by OSCE PA Special Representatives and the Chairs of OSCE PA Ad Committees on Migration and Countering Terrorism.  Leaders of recent election observation missions to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, the United States of America, and Armenia will present reports, followed by discussions.

The full programme of the two-day Winter Meeting is available here. 

Follow the meeting on social media with the hashtag #OSCEPA.