Final report of the 22nd Winter Meeting available here.

VIDEO: Joint Session of the three General Committees, Winter Meeting 2023, 24 February 2023, 09.00 – 12.00 CET

VIDEO: General Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment, Winter Meeting 2023, 23 February 2023, 15.15 – 18.00 CET

VIDEO: General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Winter Meeting 2023, 23 February 2023, 15.15 – 18.00 CET

VIDEO: General Committee on Political Affairs and Security, Winter Meeting 2023, 23 February 2023, 10.30 – 13.15 CET

VIDEO: Joint Session of the three General Committees, Winter Meeting 2023, 23 February 2023, 09.00 – 10.15 CET

The 22nd Winter Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly took place 23 and 24 February 2023 in the Congress Center Hofburg in Vienna, Austria. Video of the event is available on YouTube and photos can be found on Flickr. For the final report of the meeting, please click here (PDF).

Programme

For the general programme in French and Russian, please click here.

Thursday, 23 February 2023

09.00 – 10.15 Joint Session of the three General Committees (Neuer Saal, 2nd floor)

Address by the President of the Austrian National Council, Wolfgang Sobotka
Address by the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Margareta Cederfelt
Address by the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE and Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia, Bujar Osmani
Address by the Secretary General of the OSCE, delivered by Director of the Secretary General’s Office, Amb. Luca Fratini
Question & Answer Session

10.30 – 13.15 General Committee on Political Affairs and Security (Neuer Saal, 2nd floor)

Opening Remarks by Richard Hudson (United States), Chair of the Committee
Presentation by Amb. Stelian Stoian, Chair of the Security Committee of the OSCE Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Romania to the OSCE
Presentation by Amb. Siniša Bencun, Chair of the Forum for Security Co-operation and Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the OSCE
Presentation by Amb. Kairat Abdrakhmanov, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Presentation by Amb. Tuula Yrjölä, Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre
Special Debate: One Year of Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Understanding OSCE’s Role, Functioning, and Contributions

15.15 – 18.00 General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions (Neuer Saal, 2nd floor)

Opening remarks by Nikoloz Samkharadze (Georgia), Chair of the Committee
Presentation by Johan Büser (Sweden), Rapporteur of the Committee, on his ideas for the report and draft resolution for the 30th Annual Session in Vancouver
Presentation by Matteo Mecacci, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Presentation by Teresa Ribeiro, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Presentation by Ambassador Anne-Marie Callan, Chair of the Human Dimension Committee of the OSCE Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Ireland to the OSCE
Special Debate: Accountability for human rights abuses during times of conflict
- Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, President of the Appeals Division, International Criminal Court
- Professor Veronika Bílková, Head of the Department of Public International Law, Faculty of Law, Charles University

15.15 – 18.00 General Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment (Ratsaal, 5th floor)

Opening Remarks by Azay Guliyev, Chair of the Committee
Presentation by Gudrun Kugler, Rapporteur of the Committee, on her ideas for the report and draft resolution for the 30th Annual Session in Vancouver
Presentation by Amb. Florian Raunig, Chair of the Economic and Environmental Committee
Presentation by Amb. Igli Hasani, Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities
Special Debate: Affordable, secure, clean and sustainable energy in the OSCE region: prospects and challenges
- Wei Huang, Director of Division of Energy Planning, Information and Knowledge Management, Department of Nuclear Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency
- Prof. Steven Koonin, Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering, Former US Under-Secretary for Science, Department of Energy

Friday, 24 February 2023

09.00 – 12.00 Joint Session of the three General Committees (Neuer Saal, 2nd floor)

Opening Remarks by the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Margareta Cederfelt
General Debate: One Year In: Russia’s Continued Full-Scale War on Ukraine
- Report by the OSCE PA Special Representative on Eastern Europe, Daniela De Ridder;
- Report by the OSCE PA Special Representative on Parliamentary Dialogue on Ukraine, Vice-President Reinhold Lopatka;
- Report by the Chair of the OSCE PA Ad Hoc Committee on Migration, Vice-President Mark Pritchard;
- Report by the OSCE PA Special Rapporteur on War Crimes in Ukraine, John Whittingdale;
- Report by the OSCE PA Special Representative on Political Prisoners, Steve Cohen;
- Open Debate

14.00 – 17.00 Standing Committee Meeting (Neuer Saal, 2nd floor)

PRESS RELEASE: One year in: OSCE parliamentarians debate Russia’s continued full-scale war on Ukraine, Bureau issues joint statement (24 February 2023)
STATEMENT: Action on the One-Year Anniversary of Russia’s War Against Ukraine and the International Legal Order (24 February 2023)
SPEECH: President Cederfelt's opening remarks at the joint session of the general committees (24 February 2023)
PRESS RELEASE: OSCE PA General Committees discuss wide-ranging impacts of Russia's war against Ukraine (24 February 2023)
PRESS RELEASE: Speakers at OSCE PA Winter Meeting opening session call for unified response to Russia’s war against Ukraine (23 February 2023)
MEDIA ADVISORY: Press conference at the opening of the OSCE PA’s Winter Meeting in Vienna (22 February 2023)
OP-ED: OSCE PA Winter Meeting is a chance to challenge Russians and begin process of accountability (21 February 2023)
MEDIA ADVISORY: OSCE parliamentarians to focus on Russia’s war against Ukraine at Winter Meeting in Vienna (6 February 2023)

Winter Meeting, Vienna, February 2023