MALTESE PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION TO ATTEND OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY IN VIENNA

A Parliamentary delegation led by the Hon. Dr. John Vella and which includes the Hon. Dr. Frederick Azzopardi and the Hon. Dr. George Vella will be attending the First Winter Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to be held in Vienna between the 21st and 22nd February 2002.

The Winter Meeting shall consist of meetings of the Standing Committee and the General Committees of the Parliamentary Assembly. The meeting will be opened and concluded by joint sessions of the three General Committees of the Assembly. During these joint sessions the OSCE Chair-in-Office and the OSCE Secretary General will brief the Assembly's members on the latest developments and activities of the OSCE, and this will be followed by a question/answer session.

This procedure will be followed in the meetings of the General Committees, that is 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. The Maltese delegates will be participating in the meetings of their respective Committees.

The First Winter Meeting will be addressed by the President of the Austrian Nationalrat, Dr Heinz Fischer, followed by an address by the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Mr Adrian Severin.