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MALTESE PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION FOR O.S.C.E. PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY IN PARIS
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05/07/2001
05/07/2001
| The Hon. Dr. John Vella, MP, Leader of the Maltese | Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly; together with the Hon. Dr. George Vella, MP and the Hon. Dr. Frederick Azzopardi, MP, will be attending the 10th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to be held in Paris between the 6th and 10th July 2001, where more than three hundred parliamentarians from the 55 OSCE participating states will gather on the premises of the French Parliament. |
| The opening plenary session will be addressed by the | OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister, Mr Mircea Dan Geoana. Delegates will also hear welcoming remarks by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Mr Raymond Forni and the Speaker of the Senate, Mr Christian Poncelet. Several senior OSCE officials, including the High Commissioner on National Minorities, Mr Rolf Ekeus, and the Representative on Freedom of the Media, Mr Freimut Duve, will also brief the parliamentarians. |
| The three Committees of the Parliamentary Assembly - | the Committee on Political Affairs and Security, the Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment and the Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions - will consider three reports and draft resolutions. These reports and resolutions deal with different and interrelated aspects – political, economic and human rights – of the central theme of the 10th Annual Session: "European Security and Conflict Prevention: Challenges to the OSCE in the 21st Century". The closing Plenary Session will then consider the resolutions of the three committees and adopt a Final Declaration. |
| During a special ceremony, the 2001 OSCE Prize for | Journalism and Democracy will be presented to the widows of the murdered journalists Jose Luis Lopez de Lacelle (Spain) and Georgiy Gongadze (Ukraine). Since 1996 the Prize has been awarded annually by the Assembly to journalists who, through their work, have promoted OSCE principles in human rights and democracy. The Spanish and Ukrainian journalists are posthumously awarded the Prize for their outstanding furthering of OSCE value by intervening in conflicts and secretive political environments through their writing. |
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