A statement from the Parliament said that the issues to be addressed at the Summit include, among others, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its political and humanitarian consequences, nuclear security and the prohibition of nuclear weapons, economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, refugee and migration flows, human trafficking and cybercrime.
Other topics to be discussed will include climate change, the independence of civil society, media freedom and the fight against misinformation. Additional resolutions will also be discussed and put up for adoption,[/I] including a resolution tabled by Ms. Charalambidou, in her capacity as Special Representative on Anti-Corruption, entitled "Code of Conduct for Members of the OSCE CSC".
Cypriot MPs will take part in joint and separate sessions of the three General Committees of the Assembly - Committee on Political Affairs and Security, Committee on Economic Affairs, Science, Technology and Environment and Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. The resolutions of the three Committees, as well as additional resolutions on various issues, which will be adopted by the Plenary, will constitute the Final Declaration of the Session.
In addition, Mrs. Charalambidou, as head of the Cypriot delegation, Vice-President of the C.C. OSCE and Special Representative on Anti-Corruption and Mr Hatzigiannis, as Special Representative for Civil Society Participation, will take part in a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Assembly, during which issues related to this Session, as well as to the future activities and functioning of the Assembly, will be discussed. She will also take part in a session of the ad hoc Committee on Migration, of which she is Vice-Chair.
Ms Charalambidou will participate as a keynote speaker at an event co-organised by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the role of parliaments in promoting parliamentary integrity.
At the opening of the session, the plenary session of the Assembly will be addressed by the Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Sir Lindsey Hoyle.
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