COPENHAGEN, 24 June 2025 – This Sunday, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 32nd Annual Session will open in Porto, Portugal, with speeches by OSCE PA President Pia Kauma (Finland), President of the Portuguese Parliament José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel, and Paula Cardoso, Head of the Portuguese Delegation to the OSCE PA.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Portuguese Republic, and Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres, will address the delegates by remote intervention. 

Taking place at the Alfândega do Porto Congress Centre, from 29 June to 3 July, the Annual Session will be held under the theme “Commemorating 50 Years of the Helsinki Final Act: Responding to a New Reality in the OSCE.” Hundreds of lawmakers from North America, Europe and Central Asia are taking part in the event, which will livestream at www.oscepa.org.

Parliamentarians will debate the state of multilateralism a half-century after the signing of the OSCE’s founding document, with the situation in the Middle East and the Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine topping the agenda. Debates are also expected on critical infrastructure and nuclear safety, water scarcity and migration, artificial intelligence and misuse of technology, youth radicalization and violent extremism, energy security, child trafficking and sexual exploitation, and OSCE institutional co-operation.

The plenary sessions on 2 and 3 July are expected to feature speeches by OSCE Secretary General Feridun H. Sinirlioğlu, Head of the Finnish OSCE 2025 Chairpersonship Task Force Jouni Laaksonen, OSCE PA Secretary General Roberto Montella, and OSCE PA Vice-President Luís Graça (Portugal). OSCE PA Treasurer Johan Büser (Sweden) will report to the Standing Committee on 29 June.

The OSCE PA’s general committees will debate and amend the resolutions for inclusion in the Porto Declaration to be adopted on 3 July. This document, representing the collective voice of the OSCE’s parliamentary dimension, will contain recommendations to national governments, parliaments and the international community in the fields of security, human rights, and economic and environmental concerns.

For more information about the Annual Session, including programmes, reports, draft resolutions and supplementary items, please click here.