UK PARLIAMENT TO HOST NATO PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY’S 55TH ANNUAL SESSION

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.10.2009 14:26 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The UK Parliament will host the NATO Parliamentary
Assembly’s 55th Annual Session from Friday 13 to Tuesday 17 November
2009, bringing together in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, some 340
parliamentarians from the 28 NATO member countries from North America
and Europe as well as delegates from partner countries and observers
to discuss security issues of common concern to all countries.

Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November will be devoted to the meetings
of NATO PA’s five Committees: Political, Defense and Security,
Science and Technology, Civil Dimension of Security and Economics
and Security. Each Committee will discuss reports on a broad range
of security and defense topics and will be addressed by high level
guest speakers from government, academia, NGO’s and NATO.

The Plenary session on Tuesday 17 November will be addressed by NATO
Parliamentary Assembly’s President, Congressman John Tanner, NATO
Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Rt Hon. David Miliband MP,
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, former NATO
Secretary General, Rt Hon. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen and Supreme
Allied Commander Europe, Admiral James Stavridis.