25th Annual Session of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly takes place on 1-5 July 2016 in Tbilisi
The 25th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which is attended by nearly 300 parliamentarians from 54 OSCE participating States, is taking place in the period 1-5 July 2016 at the ExpoGeorgia Exhibition Center in Tbilisi.
The Session is held under the theme "25 Years of Parliamentary Co-operation: Building Trust Through Dialogue," commemorating the quarter-century anniversary of the Assembly's work.
The Session will be culminated with the adoption of the 2016 Tbilisi Declaration, which will contain the Assembly's wide-ranging pronouncements and policy recommendations for the OSCE and its participating States in the fields of political affairs, economics, the environment and human rights.
The Declaration will then be sent to the foreign ministers of OSCE participating States and presented in national parliaments.
As basis for the Declaration will be resolutions for each member state. The resolution of Moldova touches all problems of Moldova, starting from Transnistrian conflict, financial and political themes, and finishing with the cooperation between Parliament of Moldova and Gagauz People's Assembly and the fight against corruption. Also OSCE encourages the resumption of the "5+2" talks, with the efforts of the mediators from the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the OSCE, as well as the European Union and the United States as observers in the mediation process.